This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

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 …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …

analyses a panel data set on crime rates and the Brazilian Bolsa Familia, the largest CCT programme in the world, in order to … investigate these relationships and estimate the effect of these policies on crime rates. The related existing economic literature … analysing general welfare programmes generally ignores the crucial endogeneity involved in the relationship between crime rates …

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy …'s role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household …

In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … and nationally representative surveys, we evaluate the impact of the information campaign on the receipt of two of … Indonesian districts, using program eligibility as an instrument for having received the information treatment. Further …