Central city crime and suburban economic growth

Ray Burnham, Robert Feinberg and Thomas Husted ()

Applied Economics, 2004, vol. 36, issue 9, 917-922

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between inner-city crime patterns and suburban income growth, analysing data on 318 US counties for selected metropolitan statistical areas of 32 states within the United States from 1982 to 1997. The findings suggest that violent crime does seem to have a negative impact on close-in suburbs, with a less negative impact farther away from the central city (becoming positive at some point). While results are not as robust as we had hoped they are consistent with flight to further-out suburbs rather than migration to different metropolitan areas in response to urban crime.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000233131

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