Determinants of crime
Determinants of crime
To prevent crime effectively, we must first understand why people offend. These projects study how factors such as sanction severity, paydays, and neighborhood peers shape the propensity to commit crime.
To prevent crime effectively, we must first understand why people offend. These projects study how factors such as sanction severity, paydays, and neighborhood peers shape the propensity to commit crime.
Christian Dustmann, Mikkel Mertz and Anna Okatenko
The Economic Journal, 133 (653), 1901-1936 (July, 2023)
Citizenship, Integration and Crime
Linea Hasager and Mikkel Mertz
Mikkel Mertz
Crime, punishment and victims
Line H Andersen and Mikkel Mertz
Informal crime sanctions and labor market attachment
Lars H Andersen, Tünde Cserpes and Mikkel Mertz
Crime imposes large costs on society. These projects investigate the consequences of crime for victims and their families, how fear of crime affects individual outcomes, and whether sanction severity influences the consequences of victimization.
Victims of Crime [draft available upon request]
Christian Dustmann and Mikkel Mertz
Mikkel Mertz, Livvy Mitchell and Peer Ebbesen Skov
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Revise and resubmit.
Crime, punishment and victims
Line H Andersen and Mikkel Mertz
Fear of Crime
Andreas Kotsadam, Mette Løvgren, Mikkel Mertz
Life transitions and victim-offender dynamics
Anna Bindler, Nadine Ketel, Mikkel Mertz, Livvy Mitchell and Peer Ebbesen Skov
For most households, a home is the largest asset they will ever own, and where they live shapes outcomes from children's skill development to criminal behavior. These projects study how entry into the housing market affects wealth accumulation, how local housing policies affect inequality, and how rent control shapes the allocation of housing.
Effects of a Housing Policy on Neighborhoods, Residential Mobility, and Inequality
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø and Mikkel Mertz
Scarring Effects in the Housing Market
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø and Mikkel Mertz
Family First: Housing Allocation under Rent Control
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø and Mikkel Mertz
Gangs and their criminal activities are among the most debated problems in contemporary society. These projects investigate who joins gangs and what joining does to them. They study which childhood characteristics predict gang membership later in life, how the crime trajectories of gang members evolve over the life cycle, whether joining a gang increases criminal behavior, and whether gang activity generates crime spillovers.
Christian Dustmann, Mikkel Mertz and Anna Okatenko
The Economic Journal, 133 (653), 1901-1936 (July, 2023)
Gangs
Lars H Andersen and Mikkel Mertz
These projects study how peer exposure, family connections, and shocks to the family shape the short- and long-run outcomes of individuals and their families.
Christian Dustmann, Mikkel Mertz and Anna Okatenko
The Economic Journal, 133 (653), 1901-1936 (July, 2023)
Mikkel Mertz, Maddalena Ronchi and Viola Salvestrini
Mikkel Mertz, Livvy Mitchell and Peer Ebbesen Skov
Economics Letters, 226, 111072 (May, 2023)
Mikkel Mertz, Livvy Mitchell and Peer Ebbesen Skov
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Revise and resubmit.
Family First: Housing Allocation under Rent Control
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø and Mikkel Mertz
The Impact of Parental Connections on the Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants
Mikkel Mertz and Yannis Kastis
Child visitation, caseworker heterogeneity, and consequences for affected families
Mette Bisgaard, Mikkel Gandil, Mikkel Mertz, and Julie Uldum
Parental Impacts of Youth Loss: a compatative study between two different welfare state regimes
Lars H Andersen, Mikkel Mertz, Livvy Mitchell and Peer Ebbesen Skov