Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of … objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …

expected future income from additional schooling exceeds the cost of the grants by a ratio of more than two-toone. The patterns …

expected future income from additional schooling exceeds the cost of the grants by a ratio of more than two-toone. The patterns …

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …

local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …

congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both … temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of Quito, Ecuador's Pico y Placa program and evaluates its effect on crime …