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 …

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 …

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 …

affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered … implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is a rational consideration of the costs and benefits and that … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime … is increasing at a time in which crime rates are falling. Further, our results provide empirical support for the …

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 …

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 …

Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru …