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After the Epidemic : Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States

Cook, Philip J.; Laub, John H. - 2021

The epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In … youth violence has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography. Given the volatility in the … rates of juvenile violence, forecasting rates is a risky business indeed. Effectively narrowing the range of plausible …

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The Effect of Police on Crime : New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010

Chalfin, Aaron - 2013

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected...

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Striking at the Roots of Crime : The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression

Johnson, Ryan - 2010

The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in their efforts to survive. Franklin Roosevelt argued that the unprecedented and massive expansion in relief efforts quot;struck at the roots of crimequot; by providing subsistence...

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Income and Wealth Volatility : Evidence from Italy and the U.S. In the Past Two Decades

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2019

Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the U.S. over the last two decades. Contrary to our...

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Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia

Khanna, Gaurav - 2019

We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass-layoffs, on criminal arrests using a novel matched employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased likelihood of being arrested for both the displaced...

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Occupation, Race, Unemployment and Crime in a Dynamic System

Yamada, Tadashi; Massourakis, Michael; Rezvani, Farahmand - 2021

Inthis paper, the relationship between unemployment and property crime is investigated in the context of dynamic system by using quarterly time series data for the United States during the period of 1973 (I) - 1981(IV). The results of Granger's causality tests indicate that unemployment by...

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Crime and the Job Market

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high proportion of men of working age overall, and among blacks....

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Carrots, Sticks and Broken Windows

Corman, Hope; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of economics conditions (carrots) and sanctions (sticks) on murder, assault, robbery, burglary and motor vehicle theft in New York City, using monthly time-series data spanning 1974-1999. Carrots are measured by the unemployment rate and the real minimum wage;...

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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Fishback, Price V. - 2010

Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...

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Asymmetric Crime Cycles

Bali, Turan G.; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021

Recent theoretical models based on dynamic human capital formation, or social influence, suggest an inverse relationship between criminal activity and economic opportunity and between criminal activity and deterrence, but predict an asymmetric response of crime. In this paper we use three...

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