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 …

We develop a model where the decision to commit a crime in a neighboring area is a positive function of the percentage … of same-race individuals residing in that area since they can provide crucial information on crime possibilities. The … model then predicts a positive spatial correlation in crime between different contiguous areas; this correlation is higher …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment …-based methods are prone to reflect the mostly positive shortor medium-run implications of inequality while the level … overall impact of inequality in the long run. …

'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 …