often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but … legalizing the status of immigrants has beneficial effects on crime rates. Crucially, the evidence points to substantial …

Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing … economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across establishment size that is validated … against the data in South America. We find that high expectation of crime at the establishment- level is strongly associated …

The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …

between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … importance of the relationship are conditional on the crime rate: The partial effect is significantly positive for moderately low …