Criminal deterrence: A review of the literature

A Chalfin, J McCrary - Journal of Economic Literature, 2017 - aeaweb.org
We review economics research regarding the effect of police, punishments, and work on
crime, with a particular focus on papers from the last twenty years. Evidence in favor of …

The economics of crime

RB Freeman - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Crime is a major activity in the US, with implications for poverty and the allocation of public
and private resources. The economics of crime focuses on the effect of incentives on …

[图书][B] Introductory econometrics: Asia pacific edition with online study tools 12 months

JM Wooldridge, M Wadud, J Lye - 2016 - books.google.com
Econometrics is the combined study of economics and statistics and is an'applied'unit. It is
increasingly becoming a core element in finance degrees at upper levels. This first local …

[图书][B] Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data

JM Wooldridge - 2010 - books.google.com
The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on
microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated. The second edition of this …

Why the crime drop?

G Farrell, N Tilley, A Tseloni - Crime and justice, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
The “crime drop” is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North
America, Europe, and Australasia, many common crimes have fallen by half or more since …

Crime rates and local labor market opportunities in the United States: 1979–1997

ED Gould, BA Weinberg, DB Mustard - Review of Economics and …, 2002 - direct.mit.edu
The labor market prospects of young, unskilled men fell dramatically in the 1980s and
improved in the 1990s. Crime rates show a reverse pattern: increasing during the 1980s and …

Do police reduce crime? Estimates using the allocation of police forces after a terrorist attack

R Di Tella, E Schargrodsky - American Economic Review, 2004 - aeaweb.org
An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime.
Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July …

Building criminal capital behind bars: Peer effects in juvenile corrections

P Bayer, R Hjalmarsson, D Pozen - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same
correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is …

[图书][B] More guns, less crime: Understanding crime and gun control laws

JR Lott - 2013 - books.google.com
On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott's More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish
praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in …

Interdependent security

H Kunreuther, G Heal - Journal of risk and uncertainty, 2003 - Springer
Do firms have adequate incentives to invest in protection against a risk whose magnitude
depends on the actions of others? This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria for this type …