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This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...
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adulthood. By combining administrative data on school performance, high school graduation, crime, earnings, and cognitive and …
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and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …
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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 …
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Abstract This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime. By being the first study to use …, highlighting a potential gap in the conventional theories of economics of crime. The point-estimate of long-term unemployment for …
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This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education … is a way of escaping youth inactivity and idleness, and, since youth inactivity is known to trigger crime, the self …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the …
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Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic … migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle … limited access to formal employment, and face partial mobility restrictions, we find that total crime per person (including …
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regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …
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