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| Title: | | Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty  |
| Authors: | | Bjerk, David |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4470 |
| Abstract: | | This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover, neighborhood effects can develop, but will differ substantially in nature across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent with the empirical evidence. |
| Subjects: | | Poverty crime neighborhood effects segregation instrumental variables public housing |
| JEL: | | K42 I38 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091015808 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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