Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2012-10-11
Revision-Date: 2014-04-28
Number: 12-108/VIII
Author-Name: Wim Bernasco
Author-Email: WBernasco@nscr.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: NSCR
Author-Name: Thomas de Graaff
Author-Workplace-Name: VU University Amsterdam
Author-Name: Jan Rouwendal
Author-Workplace-Name: VU University Amsterdam
Author-Name: Wouter Steenbeek
Author-Workplace-Name: NSCR
Title: Social Interactions and Crime revisited: An Investigation using Individual Offender Data in Dutch Neighborhoods
Abstract: Using data on the age, sex, ethnicity and criminal involvement of 14.3 million residents aged 10–89 residing in 4,007 neighborhoods in the Netherlands, this article
tests if an individual’s criminal involvement is affected by the proportion of criminals living in their neighborhood of residence. We develop a binomial discrete choice model for criminal involvement and estimate it on individual data. We control for the endogeneity that may be related to the unobserved neighborhood characteristics and take into account possible biases that may result from sorting behavior. We find strongly significant social interaction effects and explore their implications for the presence of multiple equilibria and social multipliers.
Classification-JEL: R1, R2
Keywords: social interactions, neighborhoods, crime
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20120108