Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 …

investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … unemployment rates (as legally required by the policy), as well as a significant drop in crime rates. … local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local …

who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …

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 …