Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich darf Sie/Dich herzlich zu dem online stattfindenden Forschungsseminar einladen: Mittwoch, 24.6., 16h: Dennis Wesselbaum (Otago) Does Pollution Affect Crime? Evidence from U.S. Cities Abstract: In this paper we study the relationship between air pollution and crime. We construct a city-level, hourly data set with 2.4 million crimes and link each crime to data on pollution and controls, e.g. weather variables. We study the effects of four pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone), as these have different neurotoxic effects. Our identification strategy relies on using high dimensional fixed effects and exploiting hourly variations. We find that carbon monoxide has a positive effect on violent crimes and ozone has a negative effect on property crimes. These relationships are linear and we only find heterogeneity in the effect of ozone on property crimes across cities. ANMELDUNG und weitere Termine finden Sie hier: https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/onlin... <https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/online-economics-research-seminar/> Follow us on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jku.econ/ <https://www.facebook.com/jku.econ/>) or twitter (https://twitter.com/jku_econ <https://twitter.com/jku_econ> )! *** Dear colleagues, we cordially invite you to our online research seminar Wednesday, 24th of June, 4pm Dennis Wesselbaum (Otago) Does Pollution Affect Crime? Evidence from U.S. Cities Abstract: In this paper we study the relationship between air pollution and crime. We construct a city-level, hourly data set with 2.4 million crimes and link each crime to data on pollution and controls, e.g. weather variables. We study the effects of four pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone), as these have different neurotoxic effects. Our identification strategy relies on using high dimensional fixed effects and exploiting hourly variations. We find that carbon monoxide has a positive effect on violent crimes and ozone has a negative effect on property crimes. These relationships are linear and we only find heterogeneity in the effect of ozone on property crimes across cities. Please see https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/onlin... <https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/online-economics-research-seminar/> for REGISTRATION and upcoming presentations. Follow us on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jku.econ/ <https://www.facebook.com/jku.econ/> ) or twitter (https://twitter.com/jku_econ <https://twitter.com/jku_econ> )! *** Herzliche Grüße rené böheim — PD René Böheim, PhD Department of Economics www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/team/rene-boeheim/ <http://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/team/rene-boeheim/> JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz, Österreich P +43-732-2468-7369