, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a …

Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal … options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …

in which Sweden serves as a counterfactual to Denmark/Norway to estimate the measures' effectiveness. We estimate that in … the counterfactual in which Denmark/Norway implemented Sweden's more lenient measures the number of hospitalizations would … Norway imposed relatively strict measures, Sweden follows an extraordinarily lenient approach. We use an event-study approach …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …