This study estimates a household’s willingness to pay to avoid the stigma of crime while minimizing concerns of omitted variable bias. By assuming methamphetamine producers locate approximately at random within a narrowly defined neighborhood, this study is able to use hedonic estimation...

This study estimates a household's willingness to pay to avoid the stigma of crime while minimizing concerns of omitted variable bias. By assuming methamphetamine producers locate approximately at random within a narrowly defined neighborhood, this study is able to use hedonic estimation methods...

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected...

Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in the US each year with 70,000 in detention on any given day, yet little is known whether such a penalty deters future crime or interrupts social and human capital formation in a way that increases the likelihood of later criminal behavior. This paper uses...

Piracy off the Horn of Africa has grown substantially in recent years: 217 ships reported being attacked by Somali pirates during 2009. Although less than one percent of ships transiting the Gulf of Aden in 2009 suffered attacks, Somali piracy creates considerable economic costs and distortions....

Die Piraterie am Horn von Afrika hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich zugenommen: 217 Schiffe berichteten 2009, von somalischen Piraten angegriffen worden zu sein. Obwohl damit weniger als ein Prozent aller Schiffe, die den Golf von Aden 2009 durchquerten, angegriffen wurde, sorgt somalische...

“Con el proyecto Agenda Colombia Fedesarrollo busca plantear propuestas concretas sobre algunos de los temas más importantes que debe contener el Plan de Desarrollo de nuevo gobierno. Para cumplir este propósito, Fedesarrollo entrega esta serie de documentos, de alto contenido académico...

Adding to the extensive political and legal debates on data retention, this is the first study to analyse the impacts of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative...

I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the state of New York. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...

Die Piraterie am Horn von Afrika hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich zugenommen: 217 Schiffe berichteten 2009, von somalischen Piraten angegriffen worden zu sein. Obwohl damit weniger als ein Prozent aller Schiffe, die den Golf von Aden 2009 durchquerten, angegriffen wurde, sorgt somalische...