Crime and the Timing of Work

No 6613, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Two striking facts describe work timing in the United States: a lower propensity to work evenings and nights in large metropolitan areas, and a secular decline in such work since 1973. One explanation is higher and possibly increasing crime in large areas. I link Current Population Survey data on work timing to FBI crime reports. Neither fact is explained by changes in nor inter-area differences in crime rates, but higher homicide rates do reduce such work. This reduction implicitly costs the economy between $4 and $10 billion. This negative externality illustrates a larger class of previously unmeasured costs of social pathologies.

JEL-codes: J22 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-06
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Published as Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 45, no. 2 (March 1999): 311-330

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