Ending Rent Control Reduced Crime in Cambridge
Using detailed location-specific criminal incident-level data, we find that sudden rent decontrol in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1995 caused overall crime to fall by 16 percent--approximately 1,200 crimes annually. We estimate that this annual direct benefit to Cambridge residents was roughly $10 mi...
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| Language: | English |
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American Economic Association,
2020-12-17T22:42:31Z.
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