that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job …

We examine if compulsory schooling laws (CSL) necessarily lower crimes. We focus on violent youth crime (homicides by … class size, worse school performance and increased crime too. The crime reduction effects of CSL thus crucially depend on …

judicial administration of organized crime firms through the imposition of external managers in order to remove the connection …, suggesting that the burden the organized crime firms impose on other firms is very large. Firms' performance and turnover … increases by 2.2 and 0.7 percent, respectively, in the first four years after an organized crime firm enters the status of …

DCM induced an 11 percent reduction in criminal incidents involving arrestees ages 19 to 25, driven by property crime … care, increased educational attainment, and increases in parent-adult child cohabitation may explain these crime declines … crime reduction …

shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …

show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that increases … in youth unemployment induce increases in crime. Using the predicted industrial structure to instrument unemployment, we … show that this effect is causal for burglaries, thefts, and drug offences. To combat crime, it appears thus that all …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper ex-plores these channels by examining … learning mechanisms. Peer maternal incarceration increases adolescent female criminal activities and reduces male crime and the …

leaving age. This paper studies how crime reductions occurred in a sequence of state-level dropout age reforms enacted between … 1980 and 2010 in the United States. These reforms changed the shape of crime-age profiles, reflecting both a temporary … incapacitation effect and a more sustained, longer run crime reducing effect. In contrast to the previous research looking at earlier …