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| Title: | | Broadband internet: An information superhighway to sex crime?  |
| Authors: | | Bhuller, Manudeep Havnes, Tarjei Leuven, Edwin Mogstad, Magne |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5675 |
| Abstract: | | Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables and fixed effect estimates show that internet use is associated with a substantial increase in reported incidences of rape and other sex crimes. We present a theoretical framework that highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on potential offenders and victims, and a direct effect on crime propensity. Our results indicate that the direct effect is non-negligible and positive, plausibly as a result of increased consumption of pornography. |
| Subjects: | | internet broadband instrumental variables sex crimes rape pornography |
| JEL: | | J13 H40 I28 D31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201105173117 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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