VIRTUAL EVENT: Asian gold: expected returns to crime and thieves behaviour

Economic theory predicts that criminals change their actions in relation to the expected pay-off. 

Arnaud Chevalier and his co-authors tested this theory by looking at how changes in the price of gold affect the location of crime.

They found that areas with a large share of South Asian people face a disproportionate increase in property crime relative to other neighbourhoods in the same local authority when the price of gold goes up.

They propose that since South Asians store a greater share of their wealth in the form of gold jewellery, as data from the British Crime Survey suggests, the return to stealing from such households increases.

In this webinar, Arnaud will discuss this and the other main research findings. 

QSS seminar series

In this weekly Quantitative Social Science (QSS) seminar series, speakers present research that falls under the broad umbrella of quantitative social science.

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