Glaeser, Edward L; Sacerdote, Bruce; Scheinkman, Jose A - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 111 (1996) 2, pp. 507-48
The high variance of crime rates across time and space is one of the oldest puzzles in the social sciences; this variance appears too high to be explained by changes in the exogenous costs and benefits of crime. The authors present a model where social interactions create enough covariance...