the unemployment rate and the real minimum wage; sticks are measured by felony arrests, police force and New York City …. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …

the unemployment rate and the real minimum wage; sticks are measured by felony arrests, police force and New York City …. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …

reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform … aggregate effects on crime. Instead, we find changes in the way theft is committed. We observe increases in car theft, apartment …

probability, the stronger economy, and the aging of the population. Third, the effect of unemployment on crime is negligible …In this article we analyze recent trends in aggregate property crime rates in the United States. We propose a dynamic … equilibrium model that guides our quantitative investigation of the major determinants of observed patterns of crime. Our main …

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be …