impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teens use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join …

assessing the time series evidence, comparing the history of executions and homicides in the United States and Canada, and …

variations over time and between siblings and twins, the results show that gun availability at home increases the propensity to … commit crime by about two percentage points for juveniles but has no impact on damaging property. The results indicate that … of someone pulling a knife or gun on the juvenile. Estimates obtained from models that exploit variations over time and …

This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of …

This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i …-specific time trends, we show that terror attacks reduce property crimes such as burglary, auto-theft, and thefts-from-cars. Terror …