intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …

planned electricity outages and crime rates, leveraging a geographic discontinuity in outage duration due to differences in … electricity suppliers within the City of Cape Town, South Africa. We compare crime trends in areas served by the municipal grid … severe. We find that 10 hours per month more outages lead to an increase of 2.6 percent or eight more crime incidents. The …

We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …