It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit … transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by … that there is no discernible effect on county-level crime rates. These null effects are consistent across all types of …

deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …

ascertain if there is a link between refugee settlements and local crime rates or terrorist events in the United States. We fail …

impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teens use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join …

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 …

In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse … this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … burglary incidents. We first consider a panel of consumer goods covering the majority of market goods stolen in the crime …