This study employs state-level panel data to examine the effect of income inequality on crime in the United States …. Using panel cointegration techniques, we find a significant negative effect of inequality on crime. …

Due to the large social costs of juvenile crime, policymakers have long been concerned about its causes. In the 2009 … draw conclusions about the relationship of time in school with crime rates. We calculate marginal effects from a negative …

We examine the gap in registered crime between the children of immigrants and the children of native Swedes. Our study … underprivileged in those resources, a gap in crime may occur. In the empirical analyses we follow all individuals who completed …, which are measured in 2005. For males, we are generally able to explain between half and three-quarters of this gap in crime …

key relationship between inequality and crime. Criminal victimization surveys of 140,000 respondents in 37 industrial … panel estimates of the effect of inequality on crime. …This paper analyzes measurement errors in crime data to see how they impact econometric estimates, particularly of the …

17-33.<P> Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose … concerns ? ]s it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has … public safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern …

Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually …

that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and …