Shaking Criminal Incentives
We study criminal incentives exploiting the devastating shock of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Evidence shows that the earthquake decreased burglaries but left other crime types unaffected. The effect stays significant even after controlling for unemployment, policing and income. We corroborate this by...
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| Main Author: |
Aoki, Yu
Koutmeridis, Theodore |
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) 01.01.2019 |
| Data of publication: | 2019-01-01 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 330 |
| Discipline: | Economics |
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| Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
| Database: | OpenAIRE (Open Access) OpenAIRE Database information Databases - DBIS |