@techreport{NBERw6613,
 title = "Crime and the Timing of Work",
 author = "Daniel S. Hamermesh",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "6613",
 year = "1998",
 month = "June",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w6613",
 abstract = {Two striking facts describe work timing in the United States: a lower propensity to work evenings and nights in large metropolitan areas, and a secular decline in such work since 1973.  One explanation is higher and possibly increasing crime in large areas.  I link Current Population Survey data on work timing to FBI crime reports.  Neither fact is explained by changes in nor inter-area differences in crime rates, but higher homicide rates do reduce such work.  This reduction implicitly costs the economy between $4 and $10 billion.  This negative externality illustrates a larger class of previously unmeasured costs of social pathologies.},
}