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 …

, increase crime. …

We explore the relationship between high school dropout and pupils' adult crime by accounting for the role of the … intergenerational transmission of crime. We employ a human capital model of schooling and crime and show that the intergenerational … transmission of crime could have a direct effect on adult crime as well as an indirect effect mediated by high school dropout. We …

We explore the relationship between high school dropout and pupils' adult crime by accounting for the role of the … intergenerational transmission of crime. We employ a human capital model of schooling and crime and show that the intergenerational … transmission of crime could have a direct effect on adult crime as well as an indirect effect mediated by high school dropout. We …

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 …

of criminals, and the pattern of their preferences. The methodology used relies on the analysis of the crime …

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 …