In the heat of the moment: Economic and non-economic drivers of the weather-crime relationship

David Blakeslee; Ritam Chaurey; Ram Fishman; Deepak Malghan; Samreen Malik

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.003

In the heat of the moment: Economic and non-economic drivers of the weather-crime relationship

David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman, Deepak Malghan, Samreen Malik

Economics

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Using daily data on the universe of crimes from 600 police stations in Karnataka, India between 2011 and 2016, and daily weather data from a dense network of monitoring stations, we study the daily and seasonal weather-crime relationship. We analyze a wide variety of crime types, and find that violent crimes respond to both daily and seasonal variation in temperatures and rainfall, whereas property crimes only respond to seasonal variation. The results provide novel evidence for the economic theory of crime, but also for the importance of non-economic drivers of violent crime, including violence against women and ethnically marginalized groups, and inter-group conflict.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	832-856
Number of pages	25
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	192
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.003
State	Published - Dec 2021

Keywords

Climate
Conflict
Crime
Gender
Weather shocks

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Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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