TY - JOUR
T1 - Unemployment and crime
T2 - New evidence for an old question
AU - Papps, Kerry L
AU - Winkelmann, R
PY - 2000/6
Y1 - 2000/6
N2 - This paper uses panel data techniques to examine the relationship between unemployment and a range of categories of crime in New Zealand. The data set covers sixteen regions over the period 1984 to 1996. Random and fixed effects models are estimated to investigate the possibility of a causal relationship between unemployment and crime. Hypothesis tests show that two-way fixed effects models should be used. The regression results provide some evidence for significant effects of unemployment on crime, both for total crime and for some subcategories of crime.
AB - This paper uses panel data techniques to examine the relationship between unemployment and a range of categories of crime in New Zealand. The data set covers sixteen regions over the period 1984 to 1996. Random and fixed effects models are estimated to investigate the possibility of a causal relationship between unemployment and crime. Hypothesis tests show that two-way fixed effects models should be used. The regression results provide some evidence for significant effects of unemployment on crime, both for total crime and for some subcategories of crime.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779950009544315
U2 - 10.1080/00779950009544315
DO - 10.1080/00779950009544315
M3 - Article
SN - 0077-9954
VL - 34
SP - 53
EP - 71
JO - New Zealand Economic Papers
JF - New Zealand Economic Papers
IS - 1
ER -
