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TY - JOUR
T1 - Assaults, murders and walkers
T2 - The impact of violent crime on physical activity
AU - Janke, Katharina Marie
AU - Propper, Carol
AU - Shields, Michael
N1 - Open Access funded by Economic and Social Research Council Under a Creative Commons license
PY - 2016/5
Y1 - 2016/5
N2 - We investigate an underexplored externality of crime: the impact of violent crime on individuals’ participation in walking. For many adults walking is the only regular physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people in 323 small areas in England between 2005 and 2011 matched to quarterly crime data at the small area level. Within area variation identifies the causal effect of local violent crime on walking and a difference-in-difference analysis of two high-profile crimes corroborates our results. We find a significant deterrent effect of violent crime on walking that translates into a drop in overall physical activity
AB - We investigate an underexplored externality of crime: the impact of violent crime on individuals’ participation in walking. For many adults walking is the only regular physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people in 323 small areas in England between 2005 and 2011 matched to quarterly crime data at the small area level. Within area variation identifies the causal effect of local violent crime on walking and a difference-in-difference analysis of two high-profile crimes corroborates our results. We find a significant deterrent effect of violent crime on walking that translates into a drop in overall physical activity
KW - Violent crime
KW - Walking
KW - Physical activity
KW - Externality
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.01.006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 47
SP - 34
EP - 49
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
SN - 0167-6296
ER -