The long run effects of de jure discrimination in the credit market: How redlining increased crime

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Anders, John
• 署名单位: Trinity University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104857
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: crime; Redlining; DISCRIMINATION; education; housing

摘要

Today in the United States the welfare costs of crime are disproportionately borne by individuals living in predominately African-American or Hispanic neighborhoods. This paper shows that redlining practices established in the wake of the Great Depression made lasting contributions to this inequity. First I use an unannounced population cutoff that determined which cities were redline mapped to show that red-line mapping increased present-day city level crime. Secondly, I use a spatial regression discontinuity to show that redlining influenced the present-day neighborhood level distribution of crime in Los Angeles, California. I also identify channels though which redline mapping influenced crime including increasing racial segregation and decreasing educational attainment.(c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.