Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household … trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence of violent crimes and property crimes …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …