| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21787 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21787 |
| Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata | |
| Evan Herrnstadt; Erich Muehlegger | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-12-14 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A large and growing literature documents the adverse impacts of pollution on health, productivity, educational attainment and socioeconomic outcomes. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence that air pollution causally affects criminal activity. We exploit detailed location data on over two million serious crimes reported to the Chicago police department over a twelve-year period. We identify the causal effect of pollution on criminal activity by comparing crime on opposite sides of major interstates on days when the wind blows orthogonally the direction of the interstate and find that violent crime is 2.2 percent higher on the downwind side. Consistent with evidence from psychology on the relationship between pollution and aggression, the effect is unique to violent crimes – we find no effect of pollution on the commission of property crime. |
| 主题 | Other ; Law and Economics ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21787 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579461 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Evan Herrnstadt,Erich Muehlegger. Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata. 2015. |
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