the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny … incentives and deter crime in the long run. …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We … argue that an increase in crime against women, increases the non-pecuniary costs of traveling to work, particularly in a …

Theories of crime in economics focus on the roles of deterrence and incapacitation in reducing criminal activity. In … play a role in crime reduction. This paper extends the Becker-Ehrlich model to a standard labor supply model that includes … an individual chooses to engage in crime. Second, we show that whether the production of criminal activity is a …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …