This paper models crime rates as a function of the interaction between potential offenders and victims. In particular …, the paper studies robbery of bus drivers, a crime that remains common in cities throughout the world. Exploiting the … crime incidents, the paper shows how victims' propensity to resist an attack can alter the level and nature of criminal …

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. …

Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies …

profitability of crime relative to education. These assumptions allow us to study the effect of social interactions on crime. We … on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the … information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form of a rumor and that individuals update their beliefs about the …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …