%0 Report
        %A Salm, Martin
%A Vollaard, Ben
        %T Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8677
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8677
        %X 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.
        %K heuristic
%K victimization
%K crime