This paper focuses on upper secondary technical and vocational education (TVE), which
accounts for 41% of total enrollment at upper secondary schools in China. Using a nationally …

We show that a number of noncognitive skills and preferences, including patience and
identity, are malleable in adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence …

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 …

Mexican manufacturing job loss induced by competition with China increases cocaine
trafficking and violence, particularly in municipalities with transnational criminal …

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 …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze
the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat …

Organized crime uses political violence to influence politics in a wide set of countries. This
paper exploits a novel dataset of attacks directed towards Italian local politicians to study …

This paper provides evidence that exposure to illegal labor markets during childhood leads
to the formation of industry‐specific human capital at an early age, putting children on a …

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower happiness, and decreasing income levels.
There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labor market during economic …

This paper estimates the individual impact of a worker's job loss on his/her criminal activity.
Using a matched employer–employee longitudinal data set on unemployment, crime, and …