adult criminality. One novelty in our approach is the estimation of school and sibling fixed effects models to account for … likelihood of engaging in violent crime or the selling of illicit drugs. However, our empirical estimates show that adolescents … who suffer from depression face an increased probability of engaging in property crime. Our estimates imply that the lower …

the legal possibility of dropping out. The "crime" and "dropout" differences are strong but somewhat muted by the fact …

The association between legalized abortion and crime remains a contentious finding with major implications for social … convincing test of abortion and crime should be based on an exogenous change in abortion that had a demonstrable effect on … the effects of abortion on crime over 15 to 20 years of the life of a cohort to lessen the impact of the crack epidemic. I …

The inverse relationship between abortion and crime has spurred new research and much controversy. If the relationship … is causal, then polices that increased abortion have generated enormous external benefits from reduced crime. In previous … crime, crime should have fallen sharply as these post-legalization cohorts reached their late teens and early 20s, the peak …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what … channels the trade-induced economic shocks may have affected crime. We show that the shocks had significant effects on …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime … Reports (UCR), combined with a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we find that PDMPs reduced overall crime by 5 …