on political attitudes. This result holds for a variety of political attitudes and for both Sweden and the United States. …

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 …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … considered an effective and cost-viable alternative to interventions based on harsher punishment alone. In particular we study … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore …

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 …

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 …

administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random … in childhood leads to a significant increase in teen crime and significant decreases in educational attainment and adult …