Crime Rates and Local Labor Market Opportunities in the United States: 19791997

By Eric D. Gould, Bruce A. Weinberg, David B. Mustard. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Crime and Economic Incentives (2000, background): “Thus, Gould et al. (2002) examine the impact of N um be r Annual number of papers in leading economics journals on the economics of crime.”
RACE‐SPECIFIC EMPLOYMENT CONTEXTS AND RECIDIVISM* (2010, positive): “One line of inquiry has focused on the ecological association between unemployment rates and crime rates (e.g., Cantor and Land, 1985, 2001; Chiricos, 1987; Freeman, 1983; Gould et al., 2002).”
Crime and unemployment in turbulent times (2007, background): “4 We are aware of three previous Swedish studies that analyze the link between unemployment and crime: le Grand (1986), Schuller (1986) and Edmark (2002).”
Reexamining Criminal Behavior: The Importance of Omitted Variable Bias (2003, neutral): “…Black and Nagin (1998), Lott (1998), Bronars and Lott (1998), Dezhbakhsh and Rubin (1998), Levitt (1998), Dezhbakhsh, Rubin, and Shepherd (2001), Gould, Weinberg, and Mustard (2002), Grinols and Mustard, (2001), and Shepherd (2002a, 2002b) showed that arrest rates are important explanatory…”
Casinos, Crime, and Community Costs (2006, positive): “Wage Effects: Grogger (1997) argued that increases in wages reduce crime, and Gould, Weinberg, and Mustard (2002) showed that increased employment and wages of low-skilled individuals reduce crime.”
Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime (2001, result): “Studies that substitute other measures of the labor market conditions at the bottom of the distribution reach similar conclusions (Gould et al., 1998; Machin and Meghir, 2000).”
THE CRIME-CONTROL EFFECT OF INCARCERATION: DOES SCALE MATTER?* (2006, methodology): “(Gould et al., 2002) have argued that, in predicting crime rates, wages are a more important measure of labor”
Effects of Immigrant Legalization on Crime: The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (2014, neutral): “[22] Gould, Eric D.”