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Author: Sacerdote, Bruce
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Glaeser, Edward L. Sacerdote, Bruce |
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Why is There More Crime in Cities? NBER Working Paper No. 5430, National Bureau of Economic Research, January 1996. Also: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W5430 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Family Structure; Illegal Activities; Urbanization/Urban Living Effect of higher pecuniary benefits, lower arrest probabilities, lower probability of recognition, and characteristics that reflect tastes, social influences, and family structure; based on victimization data; US. Based on results of the National Crime Victimization Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and the Uniform Crime Reports. Full-text available on-line: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W5430 |
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Glaeser, Edward L. and Bruce Sacerdote. "Why is There More Crime in Cities?" NBER Working Paper No. 5430, National Bureau of Economic Research, January 1996. |
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Glaeser, Edward L. Sacerdote, Bruce |
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Why Is There More Crime in Cities? Journal of Political Economy 107,6 (December 1999): S225-S258. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/250109 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Crime; Rural/Urban Differences Crime rates are much higher in big cities than in either small cities or rural areas. This paper explains this connection by using victimization data, evidence from the NLSY on criminal behavior, and the Uniform Crime Reports. Higher pecuniary benefits for crime in large cities can explain at most one-quarter of the connection between city size and crime rates. Lower probabilities of arrest and a lower probability of recognition are features of urban life, but these factors seem to explain at most one-fifth of the urban crime effect. Between one-third and one-half of the urban effect on crime can be explained by the presence of more female-headed households in cities. |
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Glaeser, Edward L. and Bruce Sacerdote. "Why Is There More Crime in Cities?" Journal of Political Economy 107,6 (December 1999): S225-S258.
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Sacerdote, Bruce |
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The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes NBER Working Paper No. 7949, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2000 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Adoption; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Comparison Group (Reference group); Cross-national Analysis; Educational Attainment; Fathers, Biological; Income; Labor Market Outcomes; Mothers, Education; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Parental Influences This paper uses data on adopted children to examine the relative importance of biology and environment in determining educational and labor market outcomes. I employ three long-term panel data sets which contain information on adopted children, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. In at least two of the three data sets the mechanism for assigning children to adoptive parents is fairly random and does not match children to adoptive parents based on health, race, or ability. I find that adoptive parents' education and income have a modest impact on child test scores but a large impact on college attendance, marital status, and earnings. In contrast with existing work on IQ scores, I do not find that the influence of adoptive parents declines with child age. |
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Sacerdote, Bruce. "The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes." NBER Working Paper No. 7949, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2000. |