..., where a growing area of research estimates strong anti-poverty effects. The authors examine the effect of these policies on crime. Design/methodology/approach The authors use new event study and difference-in-differences techniques to estimate the effect of increasing unemployment insurance payments...

...Bijoy Rakshit; Yadawananda Neog Purpose The primary purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of educational attainment on crime rates across 33 Indian states over the period 2001 to 2013. This paper also examines the role of various macroeconomic, socio-economic...

...André Filipe Guedes Almeida; Gabriel Caldas Montes Purpose Due to the fact that crime and violence affect the economy and the business environment, and since the economic environment affects entrepreneurs' expectations and therefore their decisions, this study analyzes the effect of both violence...

...Keith Bender; Ioannis Theodossiou Purpose Since the literature on the effect of the unemployment rate as reflection of economic fluctuations on crime shows an empirically ambiguous effect, the purpose of this paper is to argue that a new way of modeling the dynamics of unemployment and crime...

...Oliviero A. Carboni; Claudio Detotto Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to employ provincial data to study the relationship between several crime typologies, namely murder, robbery, extortion and fraud and economic output in Italy. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose...

...Professor Esfandiar Maasoumi, Professor Almas Heshmati and Dr Guanghua Wan; Rodrigo R. Soares Purpose – Negative effects of crime encompass several different dimensions. As a result, there is no existing methodology capable of dealing with all the relevant issues simultaneously...

...Samuel Cameron Economists of the Public Choice School have argued that compensation payments to victims of crime will increase the crime rate. This proposition is examined by estimating crime supply functions for rape and aggravated assault in which the expected probability and magnitude...