Bignon, Vincent; Caroli, Eve; Galbiati, Roberto - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2011
Using department level administrative data from 1826 to 1936 we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century … France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera … timing of this shock we instrument wine production and we identify the effects of the shock on property and violent crime …