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 …

Research that investigate the extent of labor market prospects on crime rates focus on conditions in a region and crime … labor market in a region may attract non-residents, either professional criminals who travel only to commit crime or … individuals who migrate hoping to find a job and failing to do so may inclined to commit crime. Indeed, using regional data from …

Becker (1968) and Stigler (1970) provide the germinal works for an economic analysis of crime. The approach they … outlined has been utilised to consider the response of crime rates to a range of economic, criminal and socioeconomic factors … observed pattern of crime. This paper builds on a recent publication in the literature (McIntyre & Lacombe 2012), and using the …

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

areas through elements of poverty and crime. As such, the degradation process is rendered visible on the basis of social … of the squatters as the origins of poverty and crime will be rendered debatable within the perspective of urban … that this area has been attracting attention for years due to its increasing poverty and crime rates, brought about urban …

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 …