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Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the big increase of publication and … research interest in the economics of crime field. This work demonstrates a crime reducing impact of education, which can be … causality flows from education to crime. A significant body of research also explores in detail, and in various directions, the …
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economists, who investigate the (often two-way) intersection of crime with labor market factors, such as education, wages, and …The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring … effectively reduce crime. This comprehensive review underscores the transformative impact of economics on crime research and its …
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crime and fear of crime. Forty years of reforms shifted the boundaries between Russian eleven time zones. I find that a …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where the foreign … immigration on crime but positive and significant effects on crime-related concerns, which in turn triggered preventive behavioral … mechanisms, we examine data on crime-related news on TV and in newspapers, and find a disproportionate coverage of immigrant …
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How can the regularization of approximately half a million migrant's impact crime reports in hosting areas? To identify … department-monthly data from crime reports and compare crime outcomes in departments that were granted different average time … a reduction of domestic crime and an increment on sexual crime reports. Both results are in line with qualitative …
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Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide … practical guidance for the design of crime prevention policies. To illustrate these points, we first present a selective review …
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increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …
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Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little … evidence of an impact on violent crime rates in the state. Once changes in offense definitions and reporting practices in key …
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earthquake decreased burglaries but left other crime types unaffected. The effect stays significant even after controlling for … theory of crime, value and specialization. We conclude that burglars respond to damages that devaluate their prospective … takings. Yet, they cannot shift their specialization and substitute burglaries with other crime types. …
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