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Transit migration and crime evidence from Colombia

Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024

This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the Venezuela-Colombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … the distinct routes through which the migrants crossed Colombia. Employing a difference-in-differences approach and …

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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

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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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and the criminal activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

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Immigration, regional conditions, and crime : evidence from an allocation policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015

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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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

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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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021

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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Does social capital matter? : a study of hit-and-run in US counties

Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022

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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Risky moms, risky kids? : fertility and crime after the fall of the wall

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2022

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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Crime, inequality and subsidized housing : evidence from South Africa

Manea, Roxana; Patrizio, Piraino; Viarengo, Martina - 2021

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. …

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