assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

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 …

Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This … the period 1988-2004, we show that a 0.01 increase in the sex ratio raised violent and property crime rates by some 3 …%, suggesting that the rise in excess males may account for up to one-seventh of the overall rise in crime. …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little systematic analysis on the association … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …