effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …

whether media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from …"Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze … 1995 to 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We find that violent crime decreases on days with larger theater …