Happiness, Ideology and Crime in Argentine Cities

This paper uses self-reported data on victimization, subjective well being and ideology for a panel of individuals living in six Argentine cities. While no relationship is found between happiness and victimization experiences, a correlation is documented, however, between victimization experience and changes in ideological positions. Specifically, individuals who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime).

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Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Rafael Di Tella
Format: Working Papers biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:Social Development, I31 - General Welfare Well-Being, K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law, R29 - Household Analysis: Other, IDB-WP-112,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010922
https://publications.iadb.org/en/happiness-ideology-and-crime-argentine-cities
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spelling dig-bid-node-100952024-05-30T20:25:17ZHappiness, Ideology and Crime in Argentine Cities 2009-11-17T00:00:00+0000 http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010922 https://publications.iadb.org/en/happiness-ideology-and-crime-argentine-cities Inter-American Development Bank Social Development I31 - General Welfare Well-Being K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law R29 - Household Analysis: Other IDB-WP-112 This paper uses self-reported data on victimization, subjective well being and ideology for a panel of individuals living in six Argentine cities. While no relationship is found between happiness and victimization experiences, a correlation is documented, however, between victimization experience and changes in ideological positions. Specifically, individuals who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). Inter-American Development Bank Rafael Di Tella Ernesto Schargrodsky Working Papers application/pdf IDB Publications Argentina en
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Happiness, Ideology and Crime in Argentine Cities
description This paper uses self-reported data on victimization, subjective well being and ideology for a panel of individuals living in six Argentine cities. While no relationship is found between happiness and victimization experiences, a correlation is documented, however, between victimization experience and changes in ideological positions. Specifically, individuals who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime).
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