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

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes … are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability …