This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … Bogota Colombia during the pandemic. Under the policy, men were allowed out on odd days and women on even days, and we … investigate whether overall crime rates differed and whether crime was lower on women-only days. We compare crime in Bogota to …

Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

effects of officer experience on neighborhood crime. Equalizing officer seniority across districts would reduce violent crime … rate by 4.6 percent and significantly decrease inequality in crime, discretionary arrests, and officer use of force across …