| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9605
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| DP9605 Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity? |
| Carol Propper; Michael Shields
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| 发表日期 | 2013-09-08
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals? participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320 small areas in England between 2005 and 2011. We show that concerns about personal safety co-move with police recorded violent crime. To identify the causal effect of recorded violent crime on walking and other physical activity we control for individual-level characteristics, non-time varying local authority effects, national time effects and local authority-specific trends. In addition, we exploit a natural experiment that caused a sudden increase in crime ? the 2011 England riots ? to identify the causal impact of a large exogenous crime shock on physical activity in a triple difference framework. Our results show a substantive deterrent effect of local area violent crime on walking, pointing to important effects of violent crime on non-victims. The adverse effect of an increase in local area violent crime from the 25th to the 75th percentile on walking is equivalent in size to a 6 C fall in average minimum temperature. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Violent crime
Walking
Physical activity
Riots
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9605
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538464
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Carol Propper,Michael Shields. DP9605 Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?. 2013.
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