Empirical papers on the size of government suffer from neglecting preferences for government activity as discussed in the literature on varieties of capitalism. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries reveals a global divide. Among developing countries,...

According to conventional wisdom, health and education are important factors for economic and social development: they improve productivity and income distribution, and the poor gain the most. Nonetheless, in many regions of the world not all members of society receive these services equally. To...

The establishment in recent years in developing regions of our country has brought new challenges in the attention of scientists and novel research topics. Secondary analysis of field research carefully considered in the light of two specific markers (religious affiliation and church...

В статье рассмотрена история изучения вопроса о детерминантах преступлений, совершенных организованными группами. Выделены группы детерминант:...

Abstract Abstract This paper empirically investigates the effect of fiscal decentralization on public safety, which is widely taken as an important issue in evaluating the performance of public service. In addition, we provide evidence to the transmission channels of the decentralization effect....

Households choose where to live by trading off wages, house prices and local amenities. In this paper, I estimate the effect of crime on household location choice using a two-stage residential sorting model which incorporates the effect of mobility cost. The choice set in this paper is defined...

This article tries to unravel the linkages between the prevalence of a peaceful environment and the status of economic development amongst different states of India. The central contention hypothesized in the article is that the: crime rate has negative effect on economic growth. However, only...

Unemployment is a criminal factor because the person is marked by the deterioration of living standards, its emotional structure becomes unstable, the family is affected and the person can not control their desires and in this context is influenced to commit crimes. Profession as a criminal...

Few studies have simultaneously examined the relationship of levels of recorded crime, perceptions of crime and disorder, and safety from crime with rates of physical activity. We developed a series of multilevel ordinal regression models to examine these aspects in relation to self-reported...

We produced a data set from a survey of a population of convicts in probation. We combined this new data set with an official data set from the Brazilian government to study labor market discrimination faced by ex-convicts. We were interested in estimating two potential effects of...