Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime |
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Authors: | Steven D Levitt |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60637 |
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Abstract: | National-level time series data are a crude tool for distinguishing between two alternative behavioral explanations for a link between unemployment and crime. Consequently, inferences drawn from aggregate time series estimates are likely to be misleading. A more fruitful approach to learning about the link between unemployment and crime would be to utilize a menagerie of different methodological approaches such as cross-section and panel data analysis of less geographically aggregated areas, natural experiments, international data, individual-level data, and ethnography. |
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Keywords: | unemployment crime time series methodology natural experiments |
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