Impatience and crime. Evidence from the NLSY97

• Published in: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
• Main Authors: Basiglio, Stefania, esta, Alessandra, Turati, Gilberto
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Crime

We empirically test the relationship between crime and impatience at the individual level exploiting data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). Besides providing information on both violent and property crimes, NLSY97 allows to observe dierent behaviors sharing impatience as...