influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

influence adolescents' decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … least one crime report. In the following periods, crimes decrease both in the place of the arrests and the surroundings …. With many treated grids and many places exposed to spillovers, these effects add up. On aggregate, the crime reduction …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including …