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Racial Beliefs, Location and the Causes of Crime

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Verdier, Thierry () (DELTA-ENS)
Zenou, Yves () (The Research Institute of Industrial Economics)

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This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites - even if there is no basis for this - then blacks are offered lower wages and, as a result, locate further away from jobs. Distant residence increases even more the black-white wage gap because of more tiredness and higher commuting costs. Blacks have thus a lower opportunity cost of committing crime and become indeed more criminal than whites. Therefore beliefs are self-fulfilling.

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Keywords: Self-Fulfilling Prejudies; Urban Black Ghettos; Crime;

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J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
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