TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Interactions and Crime Revisited: An Investigation Using Individual Offender Data in Dutch Neighborhoods
AU - Bernasco, Wim
AU - de Graaff, Thomas
AU - Rouwendal, Jan
AU - Steenbeek, Wouter
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - Using data on the age, sex, ethnicity, and criminal involvement of more than 14 million residents of all ages residing in approximately 4,000 Dutch neighborhoods, we test if an individual's criminal involvement is affected by the proportion of criminals living in his or her residential neighborhood. We develop a binomial discrete choice model for criminal involvement and estimate it on individual data. We control for both the endogeneity that may be related to unobserved neighborhood characteristics and for sorting behavior. We find significant social interaction effects, but our findings do not imply multiple equilibria or large multiplier effects.
AB - Using data on the age, sex, ethnicity, and criminal involvement of more than 14 million residents of all ages residing in approximately 4,000 Dutch neighborhoods, we test if an individual's criminal involvement is affected by the proportion of criminals living in his or her residential neighborhood. We develop a binomial discrete choice model for criminal involvement and estimate it on individual data. We control for both the endogeneity that may be related to unobserved neighborhood characteristics and for sorting behavior. We find significant social interaction effects, but our findings do not imply multiple equilibria or large multiplier effects.
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U2 - 10.1162/REST_a_00656
DO - 10.1162/REST_a_00656
M3 - Article
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 99
SP - 622
EP - 636
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 4
ER -