This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … find that labor market conditions have a strong effect on homicides. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as …

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … find that labor market conditions have a strong effect on homicides. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as …

regions more exposed to a negative (trade-induced) economic shock also experienced a faster increase in child disability … relatively to less exposed regions. This impact occurred 20 years after the onset of the shock and was mediated by increases in … parental poverty in the years following the shock. These findings suggest that parental poverty is a mechanism of propagation …