Fully Funding Head Start Will Boost Graduation Rates and Cut Crime

A new report from Fight Crime: Invest in Kids suggests that if Head Start were fully funded, it could increase graduation rates by 10 percentage points. That, says the report, would decrease murder and assault by 20 percent, motor vehicle theft by 13 percent and arson by 8 percent. Economists Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario, and Enrico Moretti, University of California, Davis, calculated the reductions in crime using their research on how graduation rates affect crime.