, we find that the death of a more central co-offender leads to a larger reduction in aggregate crime. We also provide … more effective strategies for crime prevention. …

that cut welfare benefits for refugees, increasing crime among affected individuals. Linking refugees to neighbors, we find … increased crime among non-Danish neighbors, with spillovers persisting even after direct effects stabilize. Accounting for these …

The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …

intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …

explore the degree to which individuals respond to crime by applying for permits to legally carry concealed firearms. We find … specific circumstances of crime incidents and the characteristics of responsive applicants. Our results show that gun …

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … large relative increases in crime rates in the medium term, but these effects virtually disappear in the long term. This …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

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

, increase crime. …

and crime in Germany, a country with very high consumption levels. Using detailed survey data and administrative crime … intensity induce these crimes, implying a drinking-crime elasticity of 0.4 at age 16. …