suggestive evidence that lower handgun sales primarily reduced impulsive assaults and domestic violence …

suggestive evidence that lower handgun sales primarily reduced impulsive assaults and domestic violence. …

This paper studies the transmission of crime shocks to the economy in a sample of 32 Mexican states over the period … from 1993 to 2012. The paper uses a panel structural VAR approach which accounts for the heterogeneity of the dynamic state … associated with the sign and magnitude of the responses of economic variables to crime shocks …

evidence that lower handgun sales primarily reduced impulsive assaults anddomestic violence …

Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …

reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit … puzzles as well as areas where additional research on the relationship between economic shocks and crime would be welcome. …