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

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 …

The economic literature on crime and punishment focuses on the trade-off between probability and severity of punishment …

In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium model of crime and show that law enforcement has different roles …

This paper extends the optimal law enforcement literature to organized crime. We model the criminal organization as a … organized crime. …