Life is Now! Time Preferences and Crime: Aggregate Evidence from the Italian Regions

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and rape in a panel of European regions. In particular, this paper is intended to test whether an 'opportunity perspective' holds for rape. The 'opportunity perspective' interprets the level of unemployment as an indicator of 'social inactivity', so that a negative relationship between violent crime and unemployment is predicted. Results show that rape and unemployment are positively associated so not confirming the opportunity perspective. Results are robust using alternative dependent variables, namely (i) the count of rape; (ii) the rape rate per 100,000 people.

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Judicial Errors, Crime Deterrence and Appeals: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts

Sarel

2016

SSRN Journal

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Life is Now! Time Preferences and Crime: Aggregate Evidence from the Italian Regions

Abstract: Abstract. This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates asposited by Davis (1988)

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Economic Aspects of the Complementarity between Corruption and Crime: Evidence from Italy in the Period 1996-2005

What is the Relationship between Unemployment and Rape? Evidence from a Panel of European Regions

Judicial Errors, Crime Deterrence and Appeals: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts

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