Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing … economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across establishment size that is validated … against the data in South America. We find that high expectation of crime at the establishment- level is strongly associated …

Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose concerns ? Is … it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has a …

The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …