How do Visitors Affect Crime? |
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Authors: | Earl L Grinols David B Mustard Melissa Staha |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, One Bear Place, # 98003 Waco, TX 76798, USA;(2) Department of Economics, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA;(3) UGA Institute of Higher Education, Athens, GA 30602, USA;(4) Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany;(5) Catlin Inc., 3340 Peachtree Road NE, Tower Place 100, Suite 2950, Atlanta, GA 30326, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper, which uses data on National Park visitors between 1979 and 1998 and every county in the United States, is the
most exhaustive examination to date of how visitors affect crime. After controlling for many other factors that influence
crime, the county-level regressions consistently indicate that national park visitors have no effect on either property or
violent crime. These results are true for a variety of different measures of park visitors, for different empirical specifications,
and for different regression formats. We therefore conclude that some visitor types have no impact on crime. This conclusion
sheds light on the empirical issue of whether only some types of recreational visitors increase crime or whether visitors,
regardless of their type, necessarily increase crime. |
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