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 …

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and … concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; illustrates them within an analytical framework where …

reduced form model is estimated where the probability of being a victim of violent crime is determined by the price of alcohol … all three types of violent crime in models where country fixed effects are not included. Results from models which include …

This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV …) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which …

This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … investigate whether overall crime rates differed and whether crime was lower on women-only days. We compare crime in Bogota to … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …