a solid empirical base for assessing the theoretically anticipated crime drop that would come from drug legalization … crime systemic to cocaine criminalization, the current regime is unlikely to be cost-minimizing for either marijuana or …

market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic …

Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more …

criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and … reduced form model is estimated where the probability of being a victim of violent crime is determined by the price of alcohol … all three types of violent crime in models where country fixed effects are not included. Results from models which include …

This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV …) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which …

This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … investigate whether overall crime rates differed and whether crime was lower on women-only days. We compare crime in Bogota to … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …