This research investigates the impact of Fintech development on an important type of crime: theft. Based on Becker …

exercise UJ can also be inspected on a crime-by-crime basis; for instance, with regards to genocide, political arguments from …

corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …

Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same period, sex ratios (males to females) in the … crime-prone ages of 16-25 years rose sharply, from 1.053 to 1.093. Although scarcity of females is commonly believed to be a … small or related to social conditions liable to also affect crime rates. This paper exploits two unique features of the …

crime at the county level. The results indicate that counties with high exposure to Chinese import competition have high … crime rates. The exposure effect on property crime is much larger than that on violent crime. A one standard deviation … crimes. Interestingly, we find that the crime impact of exposure to Chinese import competition disappears in counties with …

short-term air pollution exposure and crime rates in the context of the developing world. Using thermal inversion as the … instrument for air pollution, we find that a 10 µg/m3 increase in daily PM2.5 leads to a 1.58% increase in the daily crime rate … of intentional injury, whereas air pollution has no statistically significant effect on the crime rate of danger drive …