Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 47 (2013) C, pp. 73-81
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affects their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...