Reposted by Sebastian Fossati
With @sebafossati.bsky.social and @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime.
Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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When ‘Eyes on the Street’ Are Not Enough: Insights from Itinerant Street Markets - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Objectives The tendency of businesses and residents to gravitate toward safer streets complicates efforts to assess the influence of informal surveillance (or eyes on the street) as a crime deterrent,...