Child's Gender, Young Fathers' Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Dustmann, Christian; Landerso, Rasmus
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/716562
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: social-structure; daughters; identification; decisions; networks; RISK; sons

摘要

Men who father their first child at a very young age are convicted of significantly fewer crimes in the first years after birth if the child is a son rather than a daughter. This leads to behavioral spillovers that reduce criminal convictions among other young men living in the same neighborhood, with the resulting crime multipliers affecting peers' crime even after the primary impact on the focal individual has dissipated. Through social multipliers, prevention policies that target potential criminals at an early stage, therefore, lead to larger reductions in the cost of crime than suggested by primary effects alone.