Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably smaller … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

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 …

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 …

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 …