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 …

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 …

We build and estimate a dynamic model of teenagers' choices of schooling and crime, incorporating four factors that may …

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 …

-county) evidence linking credit conditions to economic development and find a spillover effect on crime. Neighborhoods that experienced … households, and higher property crime in subsequent years. The elasticity of property crime with respect to merger …

interactions in the production of crime, it may also be due to the persistence of unobserved determinants of crime. Moreover, there … between crime rates in a particular area due to displacement. In this paper, we exploit the correlation between weather and … crime to examine the short-run dynamics of criminal behavior. Drawing on crime-level data from the FBI's National Incident …

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 …