examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the … regressions, there is a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and crime. However, Quantile regressions reveal that … the established negative relationship is noticeable exclusively in the 90 th crime quantile. Further, when the dataset is …

This paper measures the impact of crime on firm investment by exploiting variation in kidnappings in Colombia from 1996 … to 2002. Our central result is that firms invest less when kidnappings target firms. We also find that aggregate crime …

gang activity and violent crime than is widely accepted. While areas with more gang activity also have more violence, our … theory suggests gangs form as protection agencies precisely in areas with high violent crime rates. While gangs, like … governments, use violence to enforce rules, the net impact of gangs is to lower violent crime. We test this hypothesis and offer …

between crime and inequality, and the curse of natural resources; it predicts that aid in kind to war-ridden societies will … social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We …

crime rates in U.S. cities located along the border, between 1992 and 2017. We find that, for cities along the U … property crime rates and that increased border fencing is associated with significant declines in both property and violent … crime rates. Further investigation into the underlying mechanism provides evidence that border control measures are …

examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the … OLS and Tobit regressions, there is a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and crime. However, Quantile … regressions reveal that the established negative relationship is noticeable exclusively in the 90th crime quantile. Further, when …

We analyse property crime in an economy composed of a large number of heterogeneous individuals who need to protect … themselves. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and victims … equates the average returns to crime. The supply and toleration for crime are endogenized taking into account incentives to …