Do oil price fluctuations influence criminal activity in energy rich regions?: evidence from California’s Central Valley

This paper investigates whether shocks in oil prices affect the level of crime in Kern County, California’s top oil producing county. Monthly data from 2003 to 2018 is employed using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model to test the asymmetric effects of these changes. Results for Kern Co...

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Main Author: Michieka, Nyakundi M. (Author)
Contributors: Gearhart, Richard
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2023, Volume: 80, Issue: 3, Pages: 257-286
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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