simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …

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 …

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …

We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and …, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues …, crime victims of Hispanic origin in cities with a large proportion of illegal Hispanics become considerably more likely to …