incarceration by estimating sibling and neighborhood correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for … 24 percent of the variation in criminal convictions and 39 percent of the variation in incarceration. At the intensive … margin, these factors typically account for slightly less than half of the variation in prison sentence length and between …

We revisit the question of the efficiency of individual decisions to be protected against crime for the cases of both …. A decrease in the global crime payoff is detrimental to a victim if protection is observable, while it is beneficial …

market outcomes reinforce each other to imply high crime rates among blacks living in cities. This is referred to as the … experience the same labour market and crime outcomes and live together. This is referred to as the non-discriminating equilibrium … of crime is greater. Consequently, if there were no spatial dimension in this economy so that all workers were residing …

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among … heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and … victims equates the average returns to crime. We borrow from the literature on the economics of conflicts in order to define …

show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that increases … in youth unemployment induce increases in crime. Using the predicted industrial structure to instrument unemployment, we … show that this effect is causal for burglaries, thefts, and drug offences. To combat crime, it appears thus that all …

We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities … move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … investigate whether the depenalization policy impacts the level and composition of crime, using administrative records on criminal …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …

This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets … are endogenously determined. We show that in bigger cities there is relatively more crime, a standard stylized fact of … costs (or a better access to jobs) decreases crime while, in the long run with free mobility, the effect is ambiguous …