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Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime

Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Vargas, Juan - 2021

level of economic inequality, the institutional strength and law enforcement capacity of the state, and whether there are …

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The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime

Kirdar, Murat G.; López Cruz, Iván G.; Türküm, Betül - 2021

Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle-income countries—whose numbers are increasing worldwide. This...

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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region....

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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...

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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

Gathmann, Christina - 2004

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using … a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and … punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on smuggling prices is small. Though enforcement has more than …

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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban

Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from...

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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties

Waddell, Glen R. - 2010

Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...

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Delinquent networks

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2009

), we characterize the Nash equilibrium and derive an optimal enforcement policy, called the key-player policy, which …

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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance

Dur, Robert; van der Weele, Joël - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses (zero-tolerance) may yield a …

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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2006

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game...

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