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 …