Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87435
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 12-108/VIII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Using data on the age, sex, ethnicity and criminal involvement of 14.3 million residents aged 10-89 residing in 4,007 neighborhoods in the Netherlands, this article tests whether an individual's decision whether or not to be involved in crime is affected by the number of criminals in the neighborhood. Controlling for unobserved neighborhood heterogeneity and endogeneity of this decision, a small positive effect is found on violent crime, but not on property crime. The results suggest that individual characteristics and other neighborhood characteristics play a much greater role in an individual's decision to be involved in crime.
Subjects: 
social interactions
neighborhoods
crime
JEL: 
R1
R2
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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