that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

We explore the relationship between property crime and growth among microenterprises in Mexico. We use data on … microenterprises and crime incidence from victimization surveys. We find that higher rates of property crime are associated with a …

Olivier Marie explains the value of an economic approach to the analysis, design and evaluation of crime …

In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … period 1990-2003. Drawing on police administrative data, we first document that the size of immigrant population is … positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables …

their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking …

Research that investigate the extent of labor market prospects on crime rates focus on conditions in a region and crime … labor market in a region may attract non-residents, either professional criminals who travel only to commit crime or … individuals who migrate hoping to find a job and failing to do so may inclined to commit crime. Indeed, using regional data from …

Becker (1968) and Stigler (1970) provide the germinal works for an economic analysis of crime. The approach they … outlined has been utilised to consider the response of crime rates to a range of economic, criminal and socioeconomic factors … observed pattern of crime. This paper builds on a recent publication in the literature (McIntyre & Lacombe 2012), and using the …