Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City

We are grateful to the New York City Police Department for making available the data upon we used. The data were provided by and belong to the NYPD. Any further use of these data must be approved by the NYPD. We are also grateful to the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice for coordinating this study and to the New York City Housing Authority for coordinating logistics, providing invaluable data and facilitating communication with residents. We are also grateful to the Laura and John Arnold Foundation for its generous support of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and for this project. We would like to thank Valentine Gilbert, Melissa McNeill and Anna Solow-Collins for exceptional research assistance. We also thank Roseanna Ander, Robert Apel, Monica Bhatt, Monica Deza, Jennifer Doleac, Katy Falco, Justin Gallagher, David Haftez, Zubin Jelveh, Jacob Kaplan, Max Kapustin, Mike LaForest, Jens Ludwig, John MacDonald, Vikram Maheshri, Aurelie Ouss, Greg Ridgeway and Nick Sanders for providing helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. Points of view and opinions contained within this document are those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent those of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, nor do they necessarily represent the official position or policies of the New York City Police Department. Please address correspondence to: Aaron Chalfin, Department of Criminology, 558 McNeil Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-Mail: achalfin@sas.upenn.edu. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.