virtually no cost. We focus on low-skilled women who have recently given birth. We take account of program accessibility …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect … of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime, burglary, auto-theft and drug possession. A calculation suggests that … programs – general ones and those specifically targeted to the young – help to reduce crime. …

variation has affected the crime rate using a panel of Swedish county-level data for the period 1973–2000. We consider various … measures of income inequality to evaluate which part of the distribution that matters most in determining crime rates. Our … below 10 percent of median income on the incidence of property crime. Moreover, the unemployment rate has a positive effect …