reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … predate. Beyond this basic distinction between an "opportunity cost" and a "rapacity" mechanism that may mediate the effect of … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit …

This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional … police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

Institutions determine prospects for economic growth and development. This paper collapses potentially complex … interactions of different institutions into a simple condition on the primitives that determines whether a society supports spot …