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December 14, 2020

Brexit referendum vote caused an increase in hate crime

Effect was concentrated in the first quarter after the referendum and was larger in areas that voted to leave the EU

  • Brexit
  • crime
  • hate
  • immigration
  • social norms
  • UK
  • Joanna Clifton-Sprigg
  • Joel Carr
  • Jonathan James
  • Suncica Vujic
Research

November 6, 2019

Economic causes and consequences of mass shootings

Perpetrators are often low-educated and in financial distress — shootings leave lasting scars on local labor markets

  • crime
  • distress
  • education
  • unemployment
  • Abel Brodeur
  • Hasin Yousaf
Research

April 24, 2019

How day-to-day violence affects children’s educational attainment

Innovative study based on detailed crime data from São Paulo, Brazil

  • Brazil
  • crime
  • educational attainment
  • human capital
  • school
  • violence
  • Lívia Menezes
  • Martin F. Koppensteiner
Research

September 24, 2018

Why does education reduce crime?

Keeping kids “off the streets” may matter more than improving their labor market prospects

  • crime
  • education
  • education policy
  • high school dropouts
  • school leaving age
  • Brian Bell
  • Rui Costa
  • Stephen Machin
Research

April 26, 2018

Air pollution increases crime in London

Higher levels of air pollution in London increase the rate of most types of crime in the capital and, in […]

  • Air Quality Index
  • crime
  • health
  • London
  • police
  • pollution
  • stress
  • Lutz Sager
  • Malvina Bondy
  • Sefi Roth
Research

April 24, 2018

The moral hazard of life-saving innovations: Naloxone access, opioid abuse, and crime

By Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee The United States is grappling with an epidemic of opioid abuse and mortality. The […]

  • crime
  • drugs
  • health
  • moral hazard
  • mortality
  • risk
  • substance abuse
  • United States
  • Anita Mukherjee
  • Jennifer Doleac
Research

October 19, 2016

Increase in imports adversely affects provision of public services across U.S. localities

Recent research suggests that workers living in places with a heavy manufacturing presence in the U.S. have experienced both a […]

  • crime
  • imports
  • income shocks
  • infrastructure
  • public services
  • trade
  • U.S. localities
  • welfare
  • Leo Feler
  • Mine Zeynep Senses
Research

November 27, 2015

Rank, sex, drugs and crime: How relative ability affects adolescents’ risky behaviors

Parents, teachers and policymakers alike are concerned with adolescents engaging in risky practices, such as drug abuse, unprotected sex, or […]

  • adolescents
  • crime
  • drinking
  • drug use
  • education
  • high school dropouts
  • peer effects
  • rank
  • relative ability
  • risky behavior
  • sex
  • teenagers
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Ingo E. Isphording
Research

September 24, 2015

Street prostitution zones make cities safer

Designated zones for street prostitution have reduce crime in the Netherlands. Data from 1994-2011 for Dutch cities show a decrease […]

  • crime
  • drugs
  • health
  • human trafficking
  • prostitution
  • rape
  • safety
  • sexual abuse
  • sexual violence
  • spillover effects
  • street prostiution
  • tippelzones
  • Bas van der Klaauw
  • Paul Bisschop
  • Stephen Kastoryano
Research

May 19, 2015

Innovative approach to reduce violence and crime in Liberia: New research supported by DFID and IZA

Cities are home to more than half the population of developing countries. Many cities struggle to deal with large-scale urban […]

  • cash
  • cognitive behavior
  • crime
  • Development
  • drugs
  • GLM-LIC
  • Liberia
  • poverty
  • risk
  • self-image
  • therapy
  • violence
  • youth
  • Christopher Blattman
  • Julian C. Jamison
  • Margaret Sheridan
Research

November 24, 2014

Stealing to survive: Crime rates rise in response to poor harvest

Between 1863 and 1890, phylloxera (an insect which attacks grapevine roots) destroyed about 40% of the French vineyards. The crisis […]

  • agriculture
  • alcohol
  • crime
  • France
  • income shocks
  • phylloxera
  • productivity
  • shock
  • violence
  • wine
  • Eve Caroli
  • Roberto Galbiati
  • Vincent Bignon
Research

August 20, 2014

How recessions produce career criminals

Recessions are known to create higher unemployment rates and lower levels of happiness and income. There is also growing evidence […]

  • arrest
  • crime
  • graduates
  • high school dropouts
  • labor market entry
  • recession
  • unemployment
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Anna Bindler
  • Brian Bell
  • Stephen Machin
Research

June 20, 2014

A culture of crime: growing up with the mafia next door

Organized crime generates about two percent of global GDP. While this is already a considerable share, the mafia and other […]

  • behavior
  • crime
  • education
  • Italy
  • mafia
  • school
  • student
  • Antonino Vaccaro
  • Lamar Pierce
  • Stephan Meier
Research

June 9, 2014

Is becoming criminal a matter of time?

When homo economicus thinks about committing a crime, it’s all about balancing: the benefit of the crime against the disutility […]

  • crime
  • discount rate
  • education
  • human capital
  • Sweden
  • time preferences
  • Bart H.H. Golsteyn
  • David Akerlund
  • Hans Grönqvist
  • Lena Lindahl
Research

January 13, 2014

Fighting crime: incarceration does not always help

Does putting people in jail make the world a safer place? A new IZA discussion paper by Magnus Lofstrom and […]

  • California
  • crime
  • incarceration
  • jail
  • safety
  • United States
  • Magnus Lofstrom
  • Steven Raphael
Research

August 16, 2013

How the Great Recession affected domestic violence

During each global recession of the past decades there have been recurrent suggestions in the media that domestic violence increases […]

  • crime
  • crisis
  • domestic violence
  • gender differences
  • Great Recession
  • unemployment
  • Dan Anderberg
  • Helmut Rainer
  • Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Tanya Wilson
Research

February 19, 2013

Who joins a drug-selling gang?

A new paper by Leandro Carvalho and Rodrigo R. Soares analyzes the members of drug-trafficking gangs in the favelas (slums) […]

  • Brazil
  • crime
  • youth
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Rodrigo R. Soares

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