within the first five years of a DUI checkpoint ban. Turning to data from the Uniform Crime Report and Behavioral Risk Factor …

reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform … aggregate effects on crime. Instead, we find changes in the way theft is committed. We observe increases in car theft, apartment …

This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional … police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …

order” in its Criminal Finances Act 2017. On 7-8 November 2017, London hosted the Fifth OECD Forum on Tax and Crime. Against … crime, this working paper researches the role that tax laws and tax authorities play in either helping or hindering …

down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …

variation in metal prices represents a quasi-experimental variation in gains from crime. It is because (i) people steal copper … the theory, studying how thieves react to changes in monetary gains from crime.Methods: Using a unique crime-level dataset … on metal theft in the Czech Republic, we study thieves' behavior in a simple regression framework. We argue that …

market. We argue, that shocks in metal prices represent a quasi-experimental variation in gains from crime. This allows us to …This paper estimates the elasticity of the supply of offenses with respect to the gains from crime. People steal copper … that the long-run elasticity of supply of metal thefts with respect to the re-sale value of stolen metal is between unity …

set by the world market. We argue that shocks in metal prices represent a quasi-experimental variation in gains from crime … behavior. Our estimates suggest that the long-term elasticity of supply of metal thefts with respect to the re-sale value of … stolen metal is between unity and 1.5. Moreover, the system tends to equilibriate quickly — between 30 and 60 percent of a …