Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/114129 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9253
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the endogeneity of victimisation and (ii) analysing the heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole distribution of well-being. Using fixed effects panel estimation, we find that both types of crimes reduce reported well-being to a large extent, with physical violence exerting a larger average effect than property crimes. Furthermore, using recently developed panel data quantile regression model with fixed effects, we show that the negative effects of both crimes are highly heterogeneous, with a monotonic decrease over the distribution of subjective well-being.
Subjects: 
victimisation
subjective well-being
panel quantile regression
JEL: 
C21
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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