committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …

part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex-ratio increases crime, however, is the direct …

Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This … the period 1988-2004, we show that a 0.01 increase in the sex ratio raised violent and property crime rates by some 3 …%, suggesting that the rise in excess males may account for up to one-seventh of the overall rise in crime. -- Male-biased sex …