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Artigo científico

It's the phone, stupidmobiles and murder

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia

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US homicide rates fell sharply in the early 1990s, a decade that also saw the mainstreaming of cell phones – a concurrence that may be more than a coincidence, we propose. Cell phones may have undercut turf-based street dealing, thus undermining drug-dealing profits of street gangs, entities known to engage in violent crime. Studying county-level data for the years 1970-2009 we
 find that the expansion of cellular phone service (as proxied by antenna-structure density) lowered homicide rates in the 1990s. Furthermore, effects were concentrated in urban counties; among Black or Hispanic males; and more gang/drug-associated homicides.

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Tipo
Artigo científico
Ano
2019
Instituição
National Bureau of Economic Research
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/31104

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