in childhood leads to a significant increase in teen crime and significant decreases in educational attainment and adult …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …

In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that- at least for the case of … property crime - the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in … plausible hypotheses. On the whole, our results imply that urban crime in Latin America is, to an important extent, a reflection …

industrial and economic development. On the other hand we find strong evidence that organized crime, measured as high murder … past to suggest that the correlation captures, at least in part, a stable and possibly causal link between organized crime …

social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We … between crime and inequality, and the curse of natural resources; it predicts that aid in kind to war-ridden societies will …”. – conflict ; civil war ; crime ; social constraint ; populism ; trade policy ; inefficient redistribution …