This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is …

influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both … temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of Quito, Ecuador's Pico y Placa program and evaluates its effect on crime …

This paper studies the effect of ambient light on crime, taking advantage of the daylight saving time (DST) policy … database managed by Chile's national police, a centralized agency that collects detailed information regarding each crime … found. Most of the changes in property crime due to the DST policy are driven by robbery in residential areas. …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …