incarceration by estimating sibling and neighborhood correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for … 24 percent of the variation in criminal convictions and 39 percent of the variation in incarceration. At the intensive … margin, these factors typically account for slightly less than half of the variation in prison sentence length and between …

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important …

This paper studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden …'s Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … estimates indicate that more schooling has a significant negative effect on convictions and incarceration at both the extensive …

to lead a life of crime than those entering a buoyant labour market. Thus crime scars from higher entry level …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …

This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets … are endogenously determined. We show that in bigger cities there is relatively more crime, a standard stylized fact of … costs (or a better access to jobs) decreases crime while, in the long run with free mobility, the effect is ambiguous …

-scale public opinion and crime victimization survey--the first of its kind in India. The results illustrate that two of the reform … interventions, the freeze on transfers and the training, improved police effectiveness and public and crime victims’ satisfaction …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … one co-offender and a social multiplier of 2 for those linked to three co-offenders. We then provide one of the first … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount. Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the …

once removed generates the highest reduction in total crime in the network. We generalize the intercentrality measure …

player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We also show …