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 …

's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …

that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social …

correlation reflect a causal relationship? This study seeks to answer the question of whether more guns cause more crime, and … three main sources of endogeneity bias - reverse causality (higher crime rates lead people to acquire guns for self … positive effect on homicide rates: ceteris paribus, more guns do not mean more crime. …

non-cooperative way how much crime effort they will exert. We show that the Nash equilibrium crime effort of each … criminal who, once removed, leads to the maximum reduction in aggregate crime. We provide a geometric characterization of the … generalizes the key player for a group of criminals of a given size. We finally endogeneize the crime participation decision …

punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …

show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that increases … in youth unemployment induce increases in crime. Using the predicted industrial structure to instrument unemployment, we … show that this effect is causal for burglaries, thefts, and drug offences. To combat crime, it appears thus that all …

We revisit the question of the efficiency of individual decisions to be protected against crime for the cases of both …. A decrease in the global crime payoff is detrimental to a victim if protection is observable, while it is beneficial …

market outcomes reinforce each other to imply high crime rates among blacks living in cities. This is referred to as the … experience the same labour market and crime outcomes and live together. This is referred to as the non-discriminating equilibrium … of crime is greater. Consequently, if there were no spatial dimension in this economy so that all workers were residing …

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among … heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and … victims equates the average returns to crime. We borrow from the literature on the economics of conflicts in order to define …