Knight, Brian G.; Ponce de Leon, Maria Mercedes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … investigate whether overall crime rates differed and whether crime was lower on women-only days. We compare crime in Bogota to … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …