-run effects on the likelihood of being convicted of a crime by age 25 and on the number of criminal convictions by age 25. Effects … attainment. However, we find little effect on juvenile crime, which suggests the effects on adult criminal engagement are driven …

of engaging in crime and therefore, a priori drawing the conclusion that criminal activity cannot be altered by …

of engaging in crime and therefore, a priori drawing the conclusion that criminal activity cannot be altered by …

crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …

This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We … by exploiting the temporal independence of crime and deterrence in these high-frequency data, and we address the … endogeneity of alcohol by using instrumental variables where alcohol sales are instrumented with city and state alcohol taxes and …

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …