Entertainment and Crime
利用足球国家队比赛期间的小时级犯罪数据,发现比赛期间财产犯罪下降13%,但赛后非财产犯罪部分回升。
Summary In this paper I explore the effects of entertainment on aggregate crime rates. I track hourly crime data to analyze the behavior of offenses in a time window around football games played by the national team, in a country were football is the most popular entertainment. I find that total offenses decrease 13 percent during highly relevant games, an effect that comes exclusively from property crime. The decrease in property crime during the game is partially compensated by an increase in non‐property crime in the aftermath of these games.