Cornaglia, Francesca; Leigh, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
Most estimates of the cost of crime focus on victims. Yet it is plausible that an even larger cost of crime occurs via … its indirect impact on the mental wellbeing of non-victims. To test how crime affects individuals' mental outcomes, we … exploit detailed panel data on mental wellbeing, allowing us to observe the relationship between changes in crime in a local …