TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Salm, Martin
AU  - Vollaard, Ben
        TI  - Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk
        PY  - 2014/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8677
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8677
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - heuristic
KW  - victimization
KW  - crime
        ER  -