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 …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including …

Buenos Aires, Argentina. We find a large, significant, robust, and immediate decline in crime following quarantine … restrictions. We observe the effect on property crime reported to official agencies, police arrests, and crime reported in … still large in commercial and residential areas (including informal settlements). After the sharp and immediate fall, crime …

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

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). …

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 …