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 …

taken when it comes to interpreting the results arising from fixed-effects methods. -- Fixed-effects ; crime ; marriage …

Does crime in a neighborhood cause future crime? Without a source of quasi-experimental variation in local crime, we … crimes cause more severe crimes. This suggests that a range of crime reduction policies that target lighter crimes … (prescribed, for instance, by the “broken windows” theory of crime) should not be credited with reducing the violent crime rate …

The steadily growing access to high-quality spatio-temporal crime count data with a high level of spatial detail allows … to uncover interesting relationships between crime types within and between small regional units. Data coherent … methods of moments. The models’ usefulness is demonstrated in a forecasting exercise of monthly crime counts at census tract …

January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislationon reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In …

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 …