Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …

What is the long-term effect of organised crime presence on social capital accumulation? By leveraging novel social … capital and organised crime data, this study investigates this question within the Italian landscape. In an instrumental … variable (IV) setting, we exploit the forced resettlement law that compelled organised crime members living in the South of …

localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …

a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …