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Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior

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  • Christian Dustmann
  • Rasmus Landersø

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Men who father their first child at a very young age are convicted of significantly fewer crimes in the first years after birth if the child is a son rather than a daughter. This leads to behavioral spillovers that reduce criminal convictions among other young men living in the same neighborhood, with the resulting crime multipliers affecting peers’ crime even after the primary impact on the focal individual has dissipated. Through social multipliers, prevention policies that target potential criminals at an early stage, therefore, lead to larger reductions in the cost of crime than suggested by primary effects alone.

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  • Christian Dustmann & Rasmus Landersø, 2021. "Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(12), pages 3261-3301.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/716562
    DOI: 10.1086/716562
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    1. Stephen B. Billings & Mark Hoekstra, 2019. "Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers," NBER Working Papers 25730, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    7. Eva Rye Johansen & Helena Skyt Nielsen & Mette Verner, 2018. "Long-term Consequences of Early Parenthood," Economics Working Papers 2018-01-, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.

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