In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. We then use instrumental variables based on … types of crime. Since robberies represent a very small fraction of all criminal offences, the effect on the overall crime …

traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including …

"A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars … and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable … progress made in recent years in the economic analysis of individual and organised crime. Such progress is related to the so …