Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more …

local-area crime rates decrease arrest rates among individuals. Our analysis exploits the fact that the effect of treatment …-site interactions to instrument for measures of neighborhood crime rates, poverty and racial segregation in our analysis of individual …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

evidence of crime may vary with observable covariates of the persons at risk of being searched. To begin I pose a planning … problem whose objective is to minimize the utilitarian social cost of crime and search. The consequences of candidate search … rules depends on the extent to which search deters crime. Deterrence is expressed through the offense function, which …

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …