Caetano, Gregorio; Maheshri, Vikram - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 1, pp. 343-394
(prescribed, for instance, by the “broken windows” theory of crime) should not be credited with reducing the violent crime rate …Does crime in a neighborhood cause future crime? Without a source of quasi-experimental variation in local crime, we … crimes cause more severe crimes. This suggests that a range of crime reduction policies that target lighter crimes …
