Income Opportunities and Sea Piracy in Indonesia: Evidence from Satellite Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Axbard, Sebastian
• 署名单位: Uppsala University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20140404
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 154-194
• 关键词: civil conflict; economic shocks; weather; WAR; variables; colombia; poverty; GROWTH; crime; ocean

摘要

The effect of climatic variation on conflict and crime is well established, but less is known about the mechanism through which this effect operates. This study contributes to the literature by exploiting a new source of exogenous variation in climate to study the effect of fishermen's income opportunities on sea piracy. Using satellite data to construct a monthly measure of local fishing conditions it is found that better income opportunities reduce piracy. A wide range of approaches are employed to ensure that these effects are driven by income opportunities rather than other mechanisms through which climate could affect piracy.