-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions … on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the … extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate’s stay and …

incarceration rates or prisons' overcrowding. …

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have …, these young people tend to pursue high-risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, including crime and violence … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little systematic analysis on the association … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …