Regression Discontinuity Design in close municipal elections, we study how improved opportunities for cooperation in crime … violent crime. We find that municipalities in which the party in power in the majority of neighboring jurisdictions barely won …

. We analyzed the criminal procedure related to the start of prosecution. We defined the concept of victim of the crime of …

This paper employs provincial data to study the relationship between several crime typologies, namely murder, theft …

alternative forms of political representation: large scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against them more …

deterrence variable affect criminal activity. Furthermore, it highlights the extent to which crime is detrimental to economic … temporal interrelationships. The empirical evidence shows that the lack of deterrence positively affects each type of crime and … especially thefts. All crime typologies have a negative effect on legal economic activity, reducing the employment rate …

as the incidence of aggregate crime. We have also provided evidence that exogenous shocks such as the devaluation of the … Abidjan. In addition, using a sample of 1,600 households, our inquiry on the likelihood of crime victimization has pointed out … that the risk of being victimized of any kind of crime increases with the income; the fact of being displaced due to the …

analysis is based on a 30-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2997 US counties. I identify the effect of weather … on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for state-by-month and county-by-year fixed …