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It's the Phone, Stupid: Mobiles and Murder / Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edlund, Lena.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25883.
- NBER working paper series no. w25883
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- It's the Phone, Stupid
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2019.
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