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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25798 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25798 |
Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City | |
Aaron Chalfin; Benjamin Hansen; Jason Lerner; Lucie Parker | |
发表日期 | 2019-05-06 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape – street lighting – and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a unique public partnership in New York City, temporary streetlights were randomly allocated to public housing developments from March through August 2016. We find evidence that communities that were assigned more lighting experienced sizable reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a minimum, to a 36 percent reduction in nighttime outdoor index crimes. |
主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25798 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583471 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aaron Chalfin,Benjamin Hansen,Jason Lerner,et al. Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City. 2019. |
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