Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245638 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14587
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This study builds upon this body of research to demonstrate how exposure to community violence strains relationships between adolescents and their caregivers, resulting in higher levels of interpersonal conflict. Drawing on five waves of longitudinal panel data (n=778; observations=3,458; 55% female), combined with police records of violent crime in Utrecht, the Netherlands, a hybrid tobit regression documents how exposure to local and nearby violence affects child-parent conflict. The results indicate that youth who experience high levels of neighborhood violence report higher levels of conflict with parents than youth with low exposure to neighborhood violence. These results are consistent across different levels of neighborhood aggregation.
Subjects: 
adolescent development
child-parent conflict
community violence
longitudinal panel
JEL: 
I30
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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