hand. The private enforcement of property rights is seen as a substitute for public enforcement that results in a contest … in this contest. We characterize how optimality conditions for the provision of private and public goods change, how an …

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …

adulthood. By combining administrative data on school performance, high school graduation, crime, earnings, and cognitive and …

and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …

Abstract This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime. By being the first study to use …, highlighting a potential gap in the conventional theories of economics of crime. The point-estimate of long-term unemployment for …

This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education … is a way of escaping youth inactivity and idleness, and, since youth inactivity is known to trigger crime, the self …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the …

Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic … migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle … limited access to formal employment, and face partial mobility restrictions, we find that total crime per person (including …