reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … predate. Beyond this basic distinction between an "opportunity cost" and a "rapacity" mechanism that may mediate the effect of … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit …

reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … predate. Beyond this basic distinction between an "opportunity cost" and a "rapacity" mechanism that may mediate the effect of … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit …

potential determinants of crime, such as labor market conditions, public goods provision, and income inequality. We propose a …This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

potential determinants of crime, such as labor market conditions, public goods provision, and income inequality. We propose a …This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among … heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and … victims equates the average returns to crime. We borrow from the literature on the economics of conflicts in order to define …

-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … large relative increases in crime rates in the medium term, but these effects virtually disappear in the long term. This …

structurally distorted in the institutions and policies of American industrial relations. The fall of the ‘social contract’ is the …