We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent–son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent–son associations in crime. When considering the extensive margin, we find that pre-birth and …

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important …

This paper studies intergenerational correlations in crime between fathers and their children and the underlying … focus on: (i) a sample of twins, (ii) an adoptee sample, (iii) the timing of the father’s crime, and (iv) the quality of the … father – child relationship. We find evidence that both direct channels play a role in the reproduction of crime from one …

one-third and one-half of the variation in criminal convictions, depending on crime type and gender. Neighborhood … structure contribute more to sibling similarities in crime than parental income and education or neighborhood characteristics …. The lions’ share of the sibling crime correlations, however, are unexplained by these factors. Finally, sibling spacing …

We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoidviolent crime in the city of …

high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … rates in the future, when those children reach their peak crime ages, estimated to be between 18 to 26 years old in violent …

high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … rates in the future, when those children reach their peak crime ages, estimated to be between 18 to 26 years old in violent …

We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoid violent crime in the city of …