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benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job loss, especially for …
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suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …
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effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants … differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. …
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at least six years and can explain at least 5% of the overall male crime rate. Domestic violence within the family also … increase in fathers’ crime stands in sharp contrast with previous evidence from developed countries, where childbirth is …, we provide novel evidence that access to maternity benefits largely offsets the increase in crime by fathers after …
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at least six years and can explain at least 5% of the overall male crime rate. Domestic violence within the family also … increase in fathers' crime stands in sharp contrast with previous evidence from developed countries, where childbirth is …, we provide novel evidence that access to maternity benefits largely offsets the increase in crime by fathers after …
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I review recent developments in the economic analysis of crime, focusing in particular on organized crime and … due to endogenous reporting of crime and the fact that randomized controlled trials are rarely an option when studying … crime. I then discuss recent advancements made possible by the combination of detailed micro-data and quasi …
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is consistent with these results. -- Immigration ; Crime ; Legal Status …
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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 …
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We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large-scale oil thefts. Municipalities that the presidential candidate’s party barely won at the local elections in 2007-2009 exhibit a larger increase in illegal oil taps over the...
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Immigration enforcement has ambiguous implications for the crime rate of undocumented immigrants. On the one hand …, expulsions reduce the pool of immigrants at risk of committing crimes, on the other they lower the opportunity cost of crime for … those who are not expelled. We estimate the effect of expulsions on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in Italy …
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