levels of crime and local residential ownership rates. In the framework of a linear regression model and based on Danish … municipality data, we establish empirical evidence for a negative relationship between local home ownership rates and local crime …

environment in which the structural and cultural contexts of work and family are radically different from the United States, where …

, namely its effect on crime. We do this by exploiting two policy changes. First, we examine the effect of a series of national … all welfare recipients immediately from the date of enrollment. By comparing the changes in crime rates among the welfare … recipients in Farum before and after 1987 with that of the rest of Denmark, we identify the effect of workfare on the crime rate …

Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the … spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental … variables. Our results indicate that crime rates were not affected during the year of refugee arrival, but there was an increase …

, Norway, and Sweden …

spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While Denmark, Finland and Norway imposed strict measures (‘lockdowns …

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …