resulting from the trade shock. …

countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

labor market effects of German re-unification. In the aftermath of the re-unification shock, despite some gain in employment …