Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic …

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 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 …

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. …

efforts to boost ridership. However, there is not much evidence showing up to what extent, in regions with high crime rates … like Latin America, safety perception could limit these efforts. This paper studies the impact of crime and crime … preregistered experiments to quantify the impact of crime on public transport choices and policy preferences. In the first …