Found this article the other day and thought it would be appreciated here http://www.slate.com/id/2152487/?nav=ais . It is a little bit on simplistic side but raises some interesting ideas none the less. Plus the guy that wrote it wrote the econ book I used last Year.
good article. thanks
... and the amount of crime is also proportional to the amount of ice cream sold.
I'm not knocking the article, it's quite good, but I question this, " (...) because the biggest drop in crime (about a 2 percent drop for every million people watching violent movies) occurs between 6 p.m. and midnight—the prime moviegoing hours."
It's also the prime eating-out hours...
I'm not knocking the article, it's quite good, but I question this, " (...) because the biggest drop in crime (about a 2 percent drop for every million people watching violent movies) occurs between 6 p.m. and midnight—the prime moviegoing hours."
It's also the prime eating-out hours...
i bet they had a large dataset across many cities and many movies and controlled for the confounding variables. if you want, i'm sure i could get you a copy of the paper.
If you can find a link to the actual paper I would be interested to read it.