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Draca, Mirko and Machin, Stephen (2015) Crime and economic incentives. Annual Review of Economics, 7 (1). pp. 389-408. doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115808 ISSN 1941-1383.
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Abstract
In economic models of crime, changing economic incentives alter the participation of individuals in criminal activities. We critically appraise the work in this area. After a brief overview of the workhorse economics of crime model for organizing our discussion on crime and economic incentives, we first document the significant rise of the economics of crime as a research field and then go on to review the evidence on the relationship between crime and economic incentives. We divide this discussion into incentives operating through legal wages in the formal labor market and the economic returns to illegal activities. Evidence that economic incentives matter for crime emerges from both.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Annual Review of Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Annual Reviews | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1941-1383 | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 389-408 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115808 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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