IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15359

The Welfare Effects of Law Enforcement in the Illegal Money Lending Market

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Nicola Pavanini, Christoph Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15335

The Crime Effect of Refugees

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (2), 472-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15276

Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes

Marco Francesconi, Jonathan James

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1118 - 1156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15263

Automated Chat Application Surveys Using Whatsapp: Evidence from Panel Surveys and a Mode Experiment

Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov, Jens Hainmueller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15259

When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India

Nishith Prakash, Soham Sahoo, Deepak Saraswat, Reetika Sindhi

published online in: Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 30 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15248

Scientific Advancements in Illegal Drugs Production and Institutional Responses: New Psychoactive Substances, Self-Harm, and Violence inside Prisons

Rocco d'Este

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15212

Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties

Stefano Castriota, Sandro Rondinella, Mirco Tonin

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 329, 116011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15158

Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?

Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15121

Registering Returning Citizens to Vote

Jennifer Doleac, Laurel Eckhouse, Eric Foster-Moore, Allison Harris, Hannah Walker, Ariel White

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15083

What's Another Day? The Effects of Wait Time for Substance Abuse Treatment on Health-Care Utilization, Employment and Crime

Jenny Williams, Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15053

Socially Optimal Crime and Punishment

Eduardo Ferraz, Rodrigo R. Soares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14959

Sicilian Sulphur and Mafia: Resources, Working Conditions and the Practice of Violence

Carlo Ciccarelli, Alberto Dalmazzo, Tiziano Razzolini

substantially revised version published in Cliometrica, 2024,18, 531–565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14954

Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime

Eduardo Ferraz, Rodrigo R. Soares, Juan Vargas

published in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds). A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Elgar Modern Guides, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 184-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14917

Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization

Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Nadine Ketel, Andreea Mitrut

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 95–134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14907

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

Sungwoo Cho, Felipe Gonçalves, Emily Weisburst

This version: 8/2022; First version (IZA Working Paper): 12/2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14843

Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley

Matthew Gibson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14801