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Subjective Well-Being and SecurityAn Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction

Subjective Well-Being and Security: An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects... [We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living in their current houses for at least 10 years or more, who had moved to that place at some point in the past. We also find a positive and robust effect of the perception of security in the households’ neighborhood for the whole sample and for different subsamples considered. Having been a victim of an offence is also robustly negatively related to life satisfaction, in particular, in the cases where the offense was robbery.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Subjective Well-Being and SecurityAn Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 46)
Editors: Webb, Dave; Wills-Herrera, Eduardo
Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés
Subjective Well-Being and Security — Nov 12, 2011
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
ISBN
978-94-007-2277-4
Pages
91 –147
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-2278-1_6
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Abstract

[We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living in their current houses for at least 10 years or more, who had moved to that place at some point in the past. We also find a positive and robust effect of the perception of security in the households’ neighborhood for the whole sample and for different subsamples considered. Having been a victim of an offence is also robustly negatively related to life satisfaction, in particular, in the cases where the offense was robbery.]

Published: Nov 12, 2011

Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Homicide Rates; Current Housing; Previous Movement; Negative Working Capital

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