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

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. …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

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 …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …

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

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …