The authors’ dynamic equilibrium model guides their quantitative investigation of the major determinants of property-crime … patterns in the U.S. The model is capable of reproducing the drop in property crime that occurred between 1980 and 1996. The … population. The effect of unemployment on crime is negligible. Increased inequality in earnings prevented an even larger decline …

Despite popular accounts that link public housing demolitions to spatial redistribution of crime, and possible … increases in crime, little systematic research has analyzed the neighborhood or citywide impact of demolitions on crime. In … demolitions occurred. Furthermore, violent crime rates fell by about the same amount in neighborhoods that received the most …

A general equilibrium analysis of the effects of income redistribution and crime, showing that while expenditures on … police protection reduce crime, it is possible for the crime rate to increase with redistribution. …

market activities and criminal behavior in order to assess the role of certain factors on the property crime rate. In … particular, we investigate if any of the following could be capable of generating the large differences in crime rates that are … the probability of apprehension and in income inequality can generate quantitatively significant differences in the crime …

This paper extends the Pissarides (2000) model of the labor market to include crime and punishment `a la Becker (1968 … optimally. The model is used to study, analytically and quantitatively, the effects of various labor market and crime policies …. For instance, a more generous unemployment insurance system reduces the crime rate of the unemployed but its effect on the …