Religiosity and crime: evidence from a city-wide shock
This paper estimates the impacts of religiosity on criminal activity using a city-wide shock to religious sentiment from a 2015 Papal visit. Using daily data on all reported offences between 2010 and 2015 in Philadelphia at the census tract level and a difference-in-differences approach, we demonstr...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bonn, Germany
IZA- Institute of Labor Economics
April 2024
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| In: |
Discussion paper series (no. 16933)
Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Discussion paper series / IZA
no. 16933 |
| Further subjects: | B
economics of religion
B Crime B Grey literature B Deviant behavior |
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