{"id":4962,"date":"2024-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isid.ac.in\/~cecfee\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=4962"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:45:26","slug":"wheeling-into-school-and-out-of-crime-evidence-from-linking-driving-licenses-to-minimum-academic-requirements","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.isid.ac.in\/~cecfee\/publication\/wheeling-into-school-and-out-of-crime-evidence-from-linking-driving-licenses-to-minimum-academic-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeling into school and out of crime: Evidence from linking driving licenses to minimum academic requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo Pass No Drive\u201d (NPND) laws deny or revoke\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/drivers-license\">driver&#8217;s licenses<\/a>\u00a0to minors if they drop out of school, are frequent truants, show behavioral problems, or have a low\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/economics-econometrics-and-finance\/academic-performance\">academic performance<\/a>. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrest data, we exploit state, time, and cohort variation to show that NPND laws are associated with a significant decline in total crime,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/driving-under-the-influence\">DUI<\/a>\u00a0and property crimes among 16 to 18 year old males, and in DUIs among 16 to 18 year old females. We argue that NPND laws are a relatively low cost policy alternative to compulsory attendance laws that increase education and generate positive externalities. To explore unreported in-school crimes, we use micro data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and find that NPND laws decrease in-school risky activities. 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