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reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … predate. Beyond this basic distinction between an "opportunity cost" and a "rapacity" mechanism that may mediate the effect of … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit …
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reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … predate. Beyond this basic distinction between an "opportunity cost" and a "rapacity" mechanism that may mediate the effect of … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083960
potential determinants of crime, such as labor market conditions, public goods provision, and income inequality. We propose a …This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760065
potential determinants of crime, such as labor market conditions, public goods provision, and income inequality. We propose a …This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689460
-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …
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-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465456
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … large relative increases in crime rates in the medium term, but these effects virtually disappear in the long term. This …
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In this paper we explore the impact of the insurgency and military deployment on the livelihoods of the local communities in Afghanistan. We use monthly wages and commodity prices at the provincial level over the period 2003-2009 and look for their response to conflict events and ISAF...
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Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less devastating and less attractive to terrorists through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168270
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less devastating and less attractive to terrorists through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225421