Bookish Mobsters Made Better Bookies.
高学历罪犯赚钱更多

Just as with honest jobs, mobsters with a more advanced education made more money than their less educated counterparts. Erika Beras reports.
如同一份正当的工作，拥有更高程度教育的犯罪集团相比他们教育程度低的成员们获得更多的钱。埃丽卡·贝拉斯报道。

撰文/播音：埃丽卡·贝拉斯(Erika Beras)
翻译：郭鑫鹏
审校：丁可含

Turns out, education pays off. That’s true whether you’re a doctor or a lawyer-or even a mobster, according to a new study.
一项最新研究结果表明，无论你的职业是一个医生、律师，甚至一名罪犯，教育都会带给你回报。

Researchers compared the FBI files of more than seven hundred Italian-American mafia men from the ‘30’s to the ‘40’s to other nonmob men from the 1940 census-some were neighbors, others were first and second generation Italian-American immigrants and some were U.S. born white men.
研究者们比较了FBI档案中超过700名三四十岁的意大利裔美国人黑手党成员和其他1940年人口普查中的普通人，他们其中一些是同胞，另一些是第一代和第二代意大利移民，还有一些是美国出生的白人。

They found that mobsters tended to have a year less schooling than their neighbors-but for those who stayed in school a little longer, they tended to do better economically. More education increased their income-or moolah-by about 8 percent, on average.
他们发现犯罪集团成员比起他们的同胞要少一年学校教育，但是那些接受教育稍长的人有更好的经济发展。更多的教育平均可以增加约8%的收入。

The Study is the Economics of Education review. [Nadia Campaniello et al., Returns to Education in Criminal Organizations: Did Going to College Help Michael Corleone]
研究成果发表在《教育经济学评论》上。

Of course, this shouldn’t be surprising. The mafia is essentially a corporation, involving complex organizational and numerical expertise. Weighing grams and running numbers takes more than basic math skills. And researchers found the mobsters with the highest return were the ones involved with more complicated schemes-think embezzling, racketeering and loan sharking. Their profit was about three times higher than the mobsters involved with criminal activity like robberies.
当然，我们并不应该对此感到惊讶。黑手党作为一个公司，涉及大量复杂组织性的专业知识。称重和成本涉及比基本数学技能更高的技能。研究者们还发现有着最高收入的犯罪成员们会参与复杂的活动——贪污、诈骗、放高利贷。他们的利益会比那些参与抢劫等犯罪行动的成员们高大约3倍。

So study up! No matter what you plan to do, seems like the more you study, the bigger the payoff. Even if you ain’t nothing but a wiseguy.
所以学习吧！无论你准备做什么，你学习得更多，会得到更多的回报。即便黑社会也是如此。

-Erika Beras

原文链接：

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/bookish-mobsters-made-better-bookies/

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