Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?

Garg, Teevrat; McCord, Gordon C.; Montfort, A.J.G.M. van

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3602423

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“…Heilmann, Kahn and Tang (2021) use detailed police report data from the city of Los Angeles to show that police behavior changes for some crimes, and that the extent of change can vary by neighborhood income. Garg, McCord and Montfort (2020) find more direct income effects, showing conditional cash transfers in Mexico substantially reduce the relationship between temperature and homicide rates.…”

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confidence: 92%

The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence: Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated

Mukherjee

Sanders

2021

SSRN Journal

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence: Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated

Mukherjee

Sanders

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…§ § § Likewise, because reporting a crime is an effort and the police has limited means, the crimes that are recorded by the police tend to be serious crimes, and it is rather unlikely that a serious crime such as a murder, injury, or theft with violence would not be reported or investigated because of outside temperatures. For homicides, we can compare our results with those of Garg, McCord, and Montfort (2020), who look at the correlation between homicides and on-the-day temperature, using data from the Mexican death statistics. They find that a 1°C increase in temperature amounts to a 2.1 percent increase in daily homicide risk.…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime

Cohen,

Gonzalez

2024

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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The correlation between hot weather and crime is well documented but not fully understood. We combine millions of administrative records, victimization surveys on unreported crime, and daily weather information to analyze the effect of temperatures on crime in Mexico. We find that sample selection cannot explain the observed positive correlation between temperature and crime. Moreover, we find that shifts in alcohol consumption and time use on weekends are responsible for 28 percent of temperature-induced crimes. We also observe changes in the hour and location of crimes, providing new evidence on the importance of time use as a determinant of crime. (JEL D91, K42, O13, O17, Q54)

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“…We also contribute to an established literature documenting the effects of temperature on violent behavior (Hsiang, Burke and Miguel, 2013;Ranson, 2014;Dell, Jones and Olken, 2014;Burke, Hsiang and Miguel, 2015;Carleton and Hsiang, 2016) and a growing literature highlighting how the economic and policy environment shapes the translation of environmental conditions into economic and social damages (Mullins and White, 2019;Colmer, 2021;Colmer et al, 2021;Garg, McCord and Monftfort, 2023). Compared to the existing literature we use more detailed daily data on crime to estimate the temperature-homicide relationship and provide the first evidence that gun laws affect the temperature-homicide relationship.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%