Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte NBER … interest in discerning the impact of this costly increase on crime rates. Estimates of impact vary. We obtain new estimates of … higher levels of imprisonment and increases in labor force participation of women are related to significantly higher crime …

and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime due to the war on drugs. Exploiting the … fact that the timing, virulence and spatial distribution of changes in violent crime were unanticipated, we establish the … that are fixed over time. As local-area violent crime increases, there is a rise in risk aversion that is distributed …

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …

completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a … in imprisonment to estimate the causal effect of incarceration on adult crime and on high school completion … no impact on future violent crime, but it lowers the propensity to commit property crime. Juvenile incarceration …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what … channels the trade-induced economic shocks may have affected crime. We show that the shocks had significant effects on …

incentives to steal and the equilibrium crime rate. When studying the production of durable goods, we find that the presence of … crime affects consumer and producer surplus and thus their behaviour, market equilibrium, and, in turn, the social optimum …. Lower durability of goods reduces the incentive to steal those goods, thus reducing crime. When crime is included in the …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime … Reports (UCR), combined with a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we find that PDMPs reduced overall crime by 5 …

limited influence of a cash transfer program as well as comparison with both non-violent DTO crime and suicides, indicate that …