An on-the-Job Search Model of Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment

By Kenneth Burdett, Ricardo Lagos, Randall Wright. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature (2017, background): “…formulation is found in several prominent papers including Lemieux, Fortin, and Frechette (1994); Grogger (1998); Williams and Sickles (2002); and Burdett, Lagos, and Wright (2004), among others.4 The typical time-allocation model of crime considers a consumer facing a constant market wage and…”
Are U.S. Cities Underpoliced? Theory and Evidence (2017, methodology): “The prediction is no less important in more recent treatments, such as the models discussed in Lochner (2004), Burdett, Lagos, and Wright (2004), and Lee and McCrary (2017), among others.”
Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime (2015, background): “The argument that high inequality generates more crimes through increased potential criminal gains has been further developed in a series of theoretical models (Bourguignon et al. 2003; Burdett et al. 2003, 2004; Chiu and Madden 1998; Imrohoroğlu et al. 2004).”
The strength of weak ties in crime (2008, background): “Definition 1 A steady-state labor market equilibrium is a four-tuple (d2, d ∗ 1, d ∗ 0, c ∗) such that equations (5), (6), (7) and (8) are satisfied.”
Crime and Poverty: A Search-Theoretic Approach (2004, background): “13 Similarly, in Burdett et al. (2004), the imposition of a uniform wage would result, generically, in a degenerate equilibrium in which either all or no workers engaged in crime. a general overview of its main features, focusing on the three main theaters of economic activity.”