programs to reduce crime and other materially-motivated violence modestly. Policymakers, however, should not expect dramatic … effects of employment on crime and violence, in part because some forms of violence do not respond to incomes or employment … interventions cost-effective complements to capital injections? Second, what non-employment strategies reduce crime and violence …

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 …

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 …

effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …