Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Nattavudh Powdthavee ()

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Abstract: This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, we find a strong evidence for females that criminal victimization hurts, but hurts less if the crime rate on our reference group is high.

Keywords: Happiness; Quality of Life; Crime; Stigma; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 I31 J10 O10 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-10-20, Revised 2004-03-17
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Working Paper: Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa (2003)
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