This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … form estimates or traditional partial equilibrium, static models of crime. Equilibrium effects can be particularly relevant …

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 …

crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without ….3 percent increase in crime in districts, including crimes against women. The effect is more pronounced when the leaders are …