This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban … districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find that local area crime has a significantly negative impact on life …

We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoidviolent crime in the city of …

high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … rates in the future, when those children reach their peak crime ages, estimated to be between 18 to 26 years old in violent …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

, affect the likelihood to become criminal, although with differential importance by type of crime. …

conditions under which the involvement of a country in a “knowledge society” produces a decrease in crime level. …

Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …

than before, reaching 18 years of age, in which case they are less likely to recidivate in any type of crime. The change in …

fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security … strategies changed, and as a result, the effects on crime rates are mostly large, negative and significant. There was a clear …