crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper ex-plores these channels by examining … learning mechanisms. Peer maternal incarceration increases adolescent female criminal activities and reduces male crime and the …

We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime …

. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … increases in crime in particular with respect to drug offenses and fare-dodging. Our analysis further suggests that counties …

the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 … drinking establishments is associated with a 4 percent increase in violent crime. Reduced-form estimates suggest that … violent crime …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in … Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated … lasting crime reducing effect of workfare policy …

whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations.Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated … with an increase in the fear of crime, the latter being consistently and positively correlated with the natives …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … juvenile arrest rates for violent crime but not for property crime. The estimates of social benefits show that it is less …

Using local 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 crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …