有房能减少犯罪吗?英国激进的住房改革

IF 3.8 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI:10.1093/ej/uead040

Richard Disney, John Gathergood, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi

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摘要

“购买权”是一项大规模的自然实验，使公共住房的现有租户可以以大量补贴的价格购买房产，从1980年引入到20世纪90年代，英国的住房自有率提高了10个百分点以上。本文通过利用政策适用资格的外生变异来研究这一改革对犯罪的影响。结果表明，“购买权”大大减少了财产犯罪。现有租户的行为改变和公共物业的翻新是犯罪率下降的主要原因。这证明了补贴住房所有权和住房政策可以减少犯罪的一种新手段。

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Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK

Abstract ‘Right to Buy’, a large-scale natural experiment whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy properties at heavily subsidised prices, increased the United Kingdom homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between its 1980 introduction and the 1990s. This paper studies the impact of this reform on crime by leveraging exogenous variation in eligibility for the policy. Results show that Right to Buy generated significant property crime reductions. Behavioural changes of incumbent tenants and renovation of public properties were the main drivers of this crime reduction. This is evidence of a novel means by which subsidised homeownership and housing policy can reduce criminality.

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Economic Journal ECONOMICS-

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6.60

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