Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia

32 Pages Posted: 4 Sep 2015

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Stephane Mahuteau

Macquarie University - Economics Department

Rong Zhu

Flinders University

Abstract

This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the endogeneity of victimisation and (ii) analysing the heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole distribution of well-being. Using fixed effects panel estimation, we find that both types of crimes reduce reported well-being to a large extent, with physical violence exerting a larger average effect than property crimes. Furthermore, using recently developed panel data quantile regression model with fixed effects, we show that the negative effects of both crimes are highly heterogeneous, with a monotonic decrease over the distribution of subjective well-being.

Keywords: victimisation, subjective well-being, panel quantile regression

JEL Classification: C21, I31

Suggested Citation

Mahuteau, Stephane and Zhu, Rong, Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia. IZA Discussion Paper No. 9253, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2655293 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2655293

Stephane Mahuteau (Contact Author)

Macquarie University - Economics Department ( email )

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Rong Zhu

Flinders University

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Adelaide S.A. 5001, SA 5063
Australia

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