Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and … opportunity cost of committing crime and become indeed more criminal than whites. Therefore beliefs are self-fulfilling. …

-cooperative way how much crime effort he will exert. We show that the Nash equilibrium crime effort of each individual is proportional … removed, leads to the maximum reduction in aggregate crime. We provide a geometric characterization of the key player … player for a group of criminals of a given size. We finally endogeneize the crime participation decision, resulting in a key …