Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization

Anna Bindler, Nadine Ketel

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Abstract

Little is known about the costs of crime to victims. We use unique and detailed register data on victimizations and monthly labor market outcomes from the Netherlands and estimate event study designs to assess short-and long-term effects of criminal victimization. Across offenses, both males and females experience significant decreases in earnings (up to 212.9%) and increases in benefit receipt (up to 16%) after victimization. The negative labor market responses are lasting (up to 4 years) and accompanied by shorter-lived responses in health expenditure. Heterogeneity results suggest that most groups of vic-tims, including the noninjured, suffer nontrivial losses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)939-970
Number of pages32
JournalJournal of Labor Economics
Volume40
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Vetenskapsrådet for funding of this research (project 2017-01900) and Statistics Netherlands for support regarding the data. We also thank Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse (project P2017-0089:1). Anna Bindler is further funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy– EXC 2126/1-390838866. We thank Randi Hjalmarsson, Andreea Mitrut, Paul Muller, Mikael Lindahl, Margherita Fort, Peter Fredriksson, and Magne Mogstad as well as participants at various seminar and conference presentations for helpful comments

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