couples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay in the city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who married outside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the … singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement …

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have …, these young people tend to pursue high-risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, including crime and violence … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little systematic analysis on the association … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find …

-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its …