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The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring … economists, who investigate the (often two-way) intersection of crime with labor market factors, such as education, wages, and … effectively reduce crime. This comprehensive review underscores the transformative impact of economics on crime research and its …
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Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
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regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...
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Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the birth rate halved in East Germany. Despite their small sizes, the cohorts conceived during this period of socio-economic turmoil were, as they grew up in reunified Germany, markedly more likely to be arrested than cohorts conceived a few years...
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