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Title: Black Women, Economic Disadvantage, and Incentives to Crime
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Phillips, Llad Votey, Harold L. |
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Black Women, Economic Disadvantage, and Incentives to Crime American Economic Review 74,2 (May 1984): 293-297. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1816372 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Employment; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Self-Reporting Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A model of labor market behavior is used to investigate the relationship between the supply of hours to legitimate work and the decision to participate in grand theft. Attention is focused on those women who have chosen to participate in legal work but are constrained, possibly by the 40-hour week. Some will be overemployed and seeking part-time work; others will be underemployed and seeking additional work. Data on individual observations were obtained from the NLSY, with information classified by race, sex, hours worked, and self-report of the number of thefts over $50 in the past year. The pattern of the percentage of white men, white women, and black men reporting grand theft is U-shaped as hours worked increases. For all categories of hours worked, a slightly higher percentage of black women reported grand thefts than white women, with no black women working 49 hours or more reporting grand theft. |
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Phillips, Llad and Harold L. Votey. "Black Women, Economic Disadvantage, and Incentives to Crime." American Economic Review 74,2 (May 1984): 293-297.
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