| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w5983
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 5983
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| Market Wages and Youth Crime |
| Jeff Grogger
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| 发表日期 | 1997-03-01
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| 出版年 | 1997
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Youth crime is widespread. To study the effect of market wages on youth crime, I analyze a time-allocation model in which consumers face parametric wages and diminishing marginal returns to crime. Under these assumptions, an individual who works will commit crime if the returns to the first hour of crime exceed his market wage. This decision rule imposes considerable structure on the econometric model, which I estimate using data from the National Longitudinal Survey Youth Cohort. The empirical model provides estimates of the determinants of criminal returns and of the wage responsiveness of criminal participation. Young men's behavior appears to be very responsive to price incentives. My estimates suggest that falling real wages may have been an important determinant of rising youth crime over the past two decades. Moreover, wages explain an important component of the racial differential in criminal participation, and they largely explain the age distribution of crime. |
| 主题 | Other
; Law and Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w5983
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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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/563484
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Jeff Grogger. Market Wages and Youth Crime. 1997.
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