Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago

Autor:	Soodeh Saberian, Anthony Heyes, Erich Muehlegger, Evan Herrnstadt
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Pollution Natural resource economics Aggression media_common.quotation_subject Air pollution medicine.disease_cause Violent crime Geolocation Geography medicine Causal link medicine.symptom General Economics Econometrics and Finance Welfare Productivity media_common
Zdroj:	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 13:70-100
ISSN:	1945-7790 1945-7782
Popis:	A growing literature documents that air pollution adversely impacts health, productivity, and cognition. This paper provides the first evidence of a causal link between air pollution and aggressive behavior, as documented by violent crime. Using the geolocation of crimes in Chicago from 2001–2012, we compare crime upwind and downwind of major highways on days when wind blows orthogonally to the road. Consistent with research linking pollution to aggression, we find that air pollution increases violent crime on the downwind sides of interstates. Our results suggest that pollution may reduce welfare and affect behavior through a wider set of channels than previously considered. (JEL K42, Q53)
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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