Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household …. The relationship between trade shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that the desire for greater public safety has a …Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generates those concerns ? ]s …

property and interpersonal crime and furnishes an econometric estimation of the model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais …The intuition behind this paper is that education has a significant role to play in the reduction crime policies in … the reasons of their high crime rates. This paper brings an augmented economic model of individual crime behavior in order …

We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to …

Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the … presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. …

Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the … presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. …

concerns ? ]s it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has … 17-33.<P> Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose …

Maßnahmen möglicherweise fehlgeleitet sein können und schnelle Deregulierung und schnelle Handelsliberalisierung potentiell zu …