TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stuart, Bryan Andrew
AU  - Taylor, Evan J.
        TI  - The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
        PY  - 2019/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12228
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12228
        AB  - This paper estimates the effect of social connectedness on crime across U.S. cities from 1970 to 2009. Migration networks among African Americans from the South generated variation across destinations in the concentration of migrants from the same birth town. Using this novel source of variation, we find that social connectedness considerably reduces murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts, with a one standard deviation increase in social connectedness reducing murders by 21 percent and motor vehicle thefts by 20 percent. Social connectedness especially reduces murders of adolescents and young adults committed during gang and drug activity.
        KW  - crime
KW  - social connectedness
KW  - Great Migration
        ER  -