An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of … business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effect of crime on … previous studies, which focus on perceived rather than actual crime and often deal with geographically limited areas, we do not …

While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …

investigation of the underlying mechanisms reveals that emotional attachment and intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes … play important roles in the parental selection-crime of children relationship. Finally, results for siblings support a …

We evaluate the impacts of adopting algorithmic predictions of future offending (risk assessments) as an aid to … judicial discretion in felony sentencing. We find that judges' decisions are influenced by the risk score, leading to longer … evidence that this reshuffling led to a decline in recidivism, and, over time, judges appeared to use the risk scores less …

generalizations on how gender relates to risk aversion is not supported. Rather non-financial approaches may explain how social …

earnings risk, which reveals that females in the crime market are more risk averse than males. Furthermore, we analyze the … 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 …

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 …

Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing … economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across establishment size that is validated … against the data in South America. We find that high expectation of crime at the establishment- level is strongly associated …

One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …