influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context …

Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … about the prison population shapes tastes for punitive anti-crime policies. Respondents in the treatment group received …

Relatively little is known about the effects of blue-collar crime (theft, robbery, vandalism or arson) on financial … decisions. Previous literature has focused its attention either on 'regional' crime rates or the 'perception' of crime as … business obstacles. Instead, we examine financing terms of 'individual' firms that 'effectively' experimented blue-collar crime …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …