Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2016
This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … channels the trade-induced economic shocks may have affected crime. We show that the shocks had significant effects on … conditions on crime. Our results indicate that this channel accounts for 75 to 93 percent of the effect of the trade …