Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8677

Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk

Martin Salm, Ben Vollaard

revised version published as 'The dynamics of crime risk perceptions' in: American Law and Economics Review, 2021, 23 (2), 520 - 561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8644

Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration

János Köllő , Bence Czafit

published as 'Employment and wages before and after incarceration - evidence from Hungary' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies. 2015, 4:21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8632

Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Luca Nunziata

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (3), 697-736

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8619

More Schooling, Less Youth Crime? Learning from an Earthquake in Japan

Yu Aoki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8531

Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France

Vincent Bignon, Eve Caroli, Roberto Galbiati

published as 'Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in Nineteenth Century France in: Economic Journal, 2016, 127 (595), 19 - 49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8458

On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Border and Interior Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from Deportees

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

Demography , 2014, 51, 2255 - 2279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8403

The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Kristiina Huttunen, Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ville Mälkönen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8402

Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Richard Wright, Erdal Tekin, Volkan Topalli, Chandler McClellan, Timothy Dickinson, Richard Rosenfeld

published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (2), 361 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8332

Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Brian Bell, Anna Bindler, Stephen Machin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100, 392-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8278

The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments

Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8224

The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers

David J. Bjerk, Caleb Mason

published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 39, 58-72.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8109

Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences

Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8042

Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India

Michael Grimm, Carole Treibich

published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, 88, 318-336.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8013

Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment

Jérôme Adda, Brendon McConnell, Imran Rasul

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(5), 1130-1202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8012

Key Players in Co-Offending Networks

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925

The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7894

The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7876

The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli, Mark A. Cohen

revised version published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3 (1), 159-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7867

International Human Trafficking: Measuring Clandestinity by the Structural Equation Approach

Alexandra Rudolph, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Social Inclusion, 2017, 5 (2), 39 - 58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7838

Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform

Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael

published in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016, 664 (1), 196-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7760

Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle

Amedeo Piolatto, Matthew D. Rablen

published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82 (4), 543-565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7712

Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Arnaud Chevalier, Olivier Marie

revised version publisehd as 'Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wal' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7711

The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 978-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7686

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Horst Entorf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7685

Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level

Wang-Sheng Lee, Cahit Guven

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 39, 287-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7528

Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?

Karsten Albæk, Søren Leth-Petersen, Daniel le Maire, Torben Tranæs

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 512-540

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7522

Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?

Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7434

Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors

Jason J. Delaney, John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2014, 35 (4), 464-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7401

Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization

David McKenzie, Melissa Siegel

published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7355

Economic Conditions and Child Abuse

Jason M. Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller, Benjamin Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7334

"Thou Shalt Not Covet ...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Matteo Cervellati, Paolo Vanin

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 103, 15-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7228

School Starting Age and Crime

Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen

substantially extended version available as IZA DP#9279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7220

Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (1), 434-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7189

Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs

Leandro Carvalho, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 121, 77-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7106

Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia

Saibal Kar, Shrabani Saha

published in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (2), 100774

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6998

Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Stephenson

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 384-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6891

Shadow Economies in Highly Developed OECD Countries: What Are the Driving Forces?

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6705

Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides

Chandler McClellan, Erdal Tekin

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (3), 621-653

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6582

Youth Crime and Education Expansion

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, Suncica Vujic

revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13(4), 366-384.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6577

Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

D. Mark Anderson, Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 294-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6539

Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is there an American Exception?

Arnaud Chevalier, Orla Doyle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6423

The Shadow Economy and Work in the Shadow: What Do We (Not) Know?

Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6371

Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Laura Chioda, João M. P. de Mello, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 306-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6360

The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons

Alessandro Barbarino, Giovanni Mastrobuoni

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(1), 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6290

Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6226

Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective

Randall K. Q. Akee, Arjun S. Bedi, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau

revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 349-386

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6205

Immigrant Enclaves and Crime

Brian Bell, Stephen Machin

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 118–141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6142

The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme, Marieke Schnabel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6042

Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (2), 327-358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5995

Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood

David J. Bjerk

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 110-122