Salm, Martin; Vollaard, B.A. - Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center - 2014
We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new … neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …