Does Growing Up in a High Crime Neighborhood Affect Youth Criminal Behavior?

This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 when refugee immigrants to Denmark were assigned to neighborhoods quasi-randomly. We find strong evidence that the share of...

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Volume:	104
Main Author:	Anna Piil Damm Christian Dustmann
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	NASHVILLE American Economic Association 01.06.2014 AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
published in:	The American economic review Vol. 104; no. 6; pp. 1806 - 1832
Data of publication:	20140601
ISSN:	0002-8282 1944-7981
EISSN:	1944-7981
Discipline:	Economics Law
Subjects:	Conviction rates Criminal behavior Juvenile delinquency Criminal convictions Criminals Shorter Papers Crime reporting Refugees Violent crimes Criminal offenses Urban crime Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Psychological aspects Analysis Crime Denmark Youth Teenagers Behavior Cases Denmark NATURAL EXPERIMENT MOBILITY EXPERIMENT SOCIAL INTERACTIONS ARRESTS GENDER EDUCATION JUVENILE CRIME OPPORTUNITY FEMALE
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS