dc.contributor | Escolas::EPGE | |
dc.creator | Edlund, Lena | |
dc.creator | Machado, Cecilia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-21T13:50:20Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-03T20:39:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-21T13:50:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-03T20:39:13Z | |
dc.date.created | 2021-09-21T13:50:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10438/31104 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/5042364 | |
dc.description.abstract | US homicide rates fell sharply in the early 1990s, a decade that also saw the mainstreaming of cell phones – a concurrence that may be more than a coincidence, we propose. Cell phones may have undercut turf-based street dealing, thus undermining drug-dealing profits of street gangs, entities known to engage in violent crime. Studying county-level data for the years 1970-2009 we
find that the expansion of cellular phone service (as proxied by antenna-structure density) lowered homicide rates in the 1990s. Furthermore, effects were concentrated in urban counties; among Black or Hispanic males; and more gang/drug-associated homicides. | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | National Bureau of Economic Research | |
dc.subject | Mobile telephony | |
dc.subject | Illegal Drug Dealing | |
dc.subject | Telefonia móvel | |
dc.subject | Comércio ilegal de drogas | |
dc.title | It's the phone, stupid: mobiles and murder | |
dc.type | Article | |