Author: Medina, Carlos
Title: Peer Effects and Social Interactions of Crime: The Role of Classmates and Neighbors
Summary: We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents and youth in Medellin, Colombia.
Particularly, using a very detailed dataset of individuals attending schools during the years
2004 and 2005 and matching this data set with individuals who were captured during the
period 2006-2010, we estimate peer effects on the likelihood to become a criminal, for a
sample of students attending public schools, using as reference group individuals in their
same grade, and also in their same the classroom. We estimate a social interaction model
with a network structure, with the presence of endogenous, contextual, correlated and group
fixed effects, following the identification strategies proposed by Lee (2007), Lee, Liu and
Lin (2010), and Liu and Lee (2010). These methods satisfy the necessary and sufficient
conditions for identification mentioned by Bramoullé, Djebbari and Fortin (2009). We find
that peer effects (endogenous effect) are positive and significant when our socio-matrices,
"W", are constructed taking into account neighborhood-classmates and neighborhood-grade
information.
Details: Bogota: Banco de la República, 2012. 18p.
Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 8, 2016 at: http://fsi.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/165.peereffects.pdf
Year: 2012
Country: Colombia
URL:
Shelf Number: 145081
Keywords:
Delinquent NetworksJuvenile OffendersPeer EffectsSocial NetworksYoung Adult Offenders |
