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 …

This paper reviews the findings of more than 150 studies on the impacts of four types of
labor market institutions: minimum wages, employment protection regulation, unions and …

From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert
Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why …

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been
persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the
1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to …

This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent
criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 …

The world's poor--and programs to raise their incomes--are increasingly concentrated in
fragile states. We review the evidence on what interventions work, and whether stimulating …

We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian
provinces during the period 1990–2003. Drawing on police administrative records, we first …

We investigate the impact of job loss on crime and the mitigating role of unemployment
benefits, exploiting detailed individual‐level data linking employment careers, criminal …

I estimate the impact of employment opportunities on recidivism among 1.7 million offenders
released from a California prison between 1993 and 2008. The institutional structure of the …