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Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Lottery Winners and Their Children [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31962/w31962.pdf

by luu • 3 years ago

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starbase• 3 years ago

positive but statistically insignificant effect of lottery wealth on criminal behavior

Important study for public policy, as it implicitly refutes the radical left's assertion of a causal link between poverty and crime

bediger4000• 3 years ago

Not denying what you're saying, but the abstract actually says "There is a well-established negative gradient between economic status and crime".

Just for argument's sake, one could propose that since lottery wealth is sudden and quite large, it has different effects than what is almost always a gradual rise in economic status. Or one could argue that un-earned (randomly awarded) wealth is different than earned wealth.

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