South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on …, we find evidence for a subtle medium-term effect of weather on crime via droughts and agricultural income, which is in … various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the police ward level, we observe a short …

examines the effect of weather shocks on various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the … weather on crime via agricultural income, which is in line with the economic theory of crime. Our findings have direct policy … implications for the design of crime prevention strategies, in which weather forecasts could play an important role. …

We use detailed crime, agriculture, and weather data from India during the years 1971-2000 to conduct a systematic … analysis of the relationship between weather shocks and multiple categories of crime. We find that drought and heat exert a … shocks drive the weather-crime relationship in developing countries. The patterns we find are consistent with this hypothesis …

analysis is based on a 50-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2,972 U.S. counties. I identify the effect of … weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and county-by-year fixed …

on a 12-years panel data set of detailed crime records and weather data, it confirms the plausibility of a heat …-aggression mechanisms, and finds evidence for a weather-agricultural income-crime channel. …Chapter 2 examines how violent and property crime respond to temperature, rainfall and drought in South Africa. Based …

effects of weather shocks on crime and conflict, which has usually assumed that the income channel is the most relevant one …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 …

This paper provides evidence of the causal effect of church attendance on petty crime by using quasi-random variation …