This paper investigates the influence of friends on crime, using data I collected among the homeless. To estimate the causal effects of friends and of the share of criminal friends on crime, I rely on two instruments. The first is the share of rainy days during one's first year as homeless: rainfall fosters homeless's concentration in sheltered places and increases the probability of interactions. The second is the share of inmates released during one's first year as homeless, which a¤ects the supply of criminal friends. I find that one additional friend decreases the probability of incarceration but criminal friends increases it.
Corno, L., Homelessness and crime: Do your friends matter?, <<ECONOMIC JOURNAL>>, 2016; (forthcoming): n/a-n/a. [doi:10.1111/ecoj.12316] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/80773]
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Titolo: | Homelessness and crime: Do your friends matter? |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12316 |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2016 |
Abstract: | This paper investigates the influence of friends on crime, using data I collected among the homeless. To estimate the causal effects of friends and of the share of criminal friends on crime, I rely on two instruments. The first is the share of rainy days during one's first year as homeless: rainfall fosters homeless's concentration in sheltered places and increases the probability of interactions. The second is the share of inmates released during one's first year as homeless, which a¤ects the supply of criminal friends. I find that one additional friend decreases the probability of incarceration but criminal friends increases it. |
Lingua: | Inglese |
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Citazione: | Corno, L., Homelessness and crime: Do your friends matter?, <<ECONOMIC JOURNAL>>, 2016; (forthcoming): n/a-n/a. [doi:10.1111/ecoj.12316] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/80773] |
Appare nelle tipologie: | Articolo in rivista, Nota a sentenza |