@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8677,
            	author={Salm, Martin and Vollaard, Ben},
            	title={Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk},
            	year={2014},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={8677},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8677},
	abstract={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 neighborhood. This finding holds irrespective of whether the move is from a relatively low-crime to a relatively high-crime area or vice versa. We find that avoidance behavior adjusts in line with the observed changes in beliefs.},
	keywords={heuristic;victimization;crime},
            }