Arbeitspapier
Racial Beliefs, Location and the Causes of Crime
This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites - even if there is no basis for this - then blacks are offered lower wages and, as a result, locate further away from jobs. Distant residence increases even more the black-white wage gap because of more tiredness and higher commuting costs. Blacks have thus a lower opportunity cost of committing crime and become indeed more criminal than whites. Therefore beliefs are self-fulfilling.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 602
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Land Use Patterns
- Thema
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Self-Fulfilling Prejudies
Urban Black Ghettos
Crime
Kriminalität
Schwarze
Arbeitsmarkt
Wohnstandort
Meinungsforschung
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Verdier, Thierry
Zenou, Yves
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
- (wo)
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Stockholm
- (wann)
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2003
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Verdier, Thierry
- Zenou, Yves
- The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
Entstanden
- 2003
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