used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … find a job, how their incarceration rate changes. The purpose is to predict the effects of a successful job placement …

This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises … between detection probabilities where detection of an individual crime may result in the uncovering of the collective crime as …

implication that crime is unaffected by the magnitude of the penalty. This paper demonstrates that to attain this outcome, it is … equilibrium yield an inverse relationship between crime and the severity of the sanction. In an application, we enrich the … interesting finding is that harsher anticorruption measures can increase crime incentives. …

include a negative socio-economic (i.e., "crime") multiplier in gambling cost/benefit analyses. ... B. Legalized Gambling as …

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …

and poverty on arson, in ways expected from theory. All findings support an economic model of crime. …