| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w6353
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 6353
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| The Introduction of Crack Cocaine and the Rise in Urban Crime Rates |
| Jeff Grogger; Mike Willis
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| 发表日期 | 1998
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| 出版年 | 1998
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Despite widespread popular accounts linking crack cocaine to inner-city decay systematic research has analyzed the effect of the introduction of crack on urban crime. We" study this question using FBI crime rates for 27 metropolitan areas and two sources of" information on the date at which crack first appeared in those cities. Using methods designed to" control for confounding time trends and unobserved differences among metropolitan areas find that the introduction of crack has substantial effects on violent crime but essentially no effect" on property crime. We explain these results by characterizing crack cocaine as a technological" innovation in the market for cocaine intoxication and by positing that different types of crimes" play different roles in the market for illegal drugs. In a market with incomplete property rights" and inelastic demand, a technological innovation increases violence on the part of distributors but" decreases property crime on the part of consumers. We also find evidence that the increase in" urban crime during the 1980's occurred in two distinct phases: an early phase largely attributable" to the spread of crack and a later phase largely unrelated to it. |
| 主题 | Other
; Law and Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w6353
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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/563859
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Jeff Grogger,Mike Willis. The Introduction of Crack Cocaine and the Rise in Urban Crime Rates. 1998.
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