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Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier – Centre for Economic Performance, 2014
We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Crime, Behavior Problems, Social Influences