This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …

crime with respect to the sex ratio of 16- to 25-year-olds of 3.4, suggesting that male sex ratios can account for one …-seventh of the rise in crime. We hypothesize that adverse marriage market conditions drive this association. © 2013 The President …

The publication of Donohue and Levitt (2001)’s paper on the impact of legalized abortion on the decline of crime in the … setting, and the few other works were single-country studies. In this research, we aim to provide new evidence on the abortion-crime … exploitation of the different dates of abortion legalization in Europe. We perform regressions of crime rates on different …

one-third and one-half of the variation in criminal convictions, depending on crime type and gender. Neighborhood … structure contribute more to sibling similarities in crime than parental income and education or neighborhood characteristics …. The lions’ share of the sibling crime correlations, however, are unexplained by these factors. Finally, sibling spacing …