. Using administrative prison release records from nearly six million offenders released between 2000 and 2014, we identify …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of … police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

pure negative income effect on crime but also raises the opportunity cost of crime. This prediction is particularly … panel dataset of state- and county-level crime rates. My point estimates show that the ACA Medicaid expansion is negatively … expansion induced reduction in crime to expansion states is almost $10 billion per year …

judicial administration of organized crime firms through the imposition of external managers in order to remove the connection …, suggesting that the burden the organized crime firms impose on other firms is very large. Firms' performance and turnover … increases by 2.2 and 0.7 percent, respectively, in the first four years after an organized crime firm enters the status of …