employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased … opportunities for legitimate reemployment and access to consumption credit to investigate the mechanisms underlying this job loss-crime … after job losses. Greater exposure to expansions in consumption credit also lowers the job loss-crime elasticity …

Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentives. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in … formal-sector employment induces crime. Regression discontinuity estimates show this policy generated reductions in formal …-sector employment and a corresponding spike in organized crime, but no effects on crimes of impulse or opportunity …

This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during … the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …

In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer …

media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to … 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We find that violent crime decreases on days with larger theater audiences … the audience for violent movies reduces violent crime by 1.1 to 1.3 percent. After exposure to the movie, between 12AM and …

Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown that immigrants have lower rates of involvement in … involved in crime. In 1904 prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar by nativity for all ages except …

The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that particularly …

The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in … on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a ten percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s lowered property … crime by roughly 1.5 percent. By limiting the amount of free time for relief recipients, work relief was more effective than …