used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …

arrived at the index site in real-time and to forecast elapsed time to some future percentile in a migration. This report …

workers' migration patterns. I develop a model of local labor markets that describes how tariff changes across industries … Brazil's 1987-1995 trade liberalization affected wages and interstate migration within the country. I find that wages fell … in migration patterns. These results demonstrate the empirical value of the theoretical framework and represent the first …