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Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children / David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling, Christofer Schroeder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cesarini, David.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31962.
- NBER working paper series no. w31962
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- There is a well-established negative gradient between economic status and crime, but its underlying causal mechanisms are not well understood. We use data on four Swedish lotteries matched to data on criminal convictions to gauge the causal effect of financial windfalls on player's own crime and their children's delinquency. We
- estimate a positive but statistically insignificant effect of lottery wealth on players' own conviction risk. Our estimates allow us to rule out effects one fifth as large as the cross-sectional gradient between income and crime. We also estimate a less precise null effect of parental lottery wealth on child delinquency.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2023.
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