WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR CRIME CONTROL PROGRAMS*

By Mark A. Cohen, Roland T. Rust, S. Steen, Simon T. Tidd. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Volunteering to be taxed: Business improvement districts and the extra-governmental provision of public safety (2008, positive): “…seven crimes a BID averts is a violent one; attributing BIDs’ entire security costs of $3,000 per averted crime to the violent ones, BIDs are still a good social deal, compared to the social cost of $57,000 per victim from the least costly violent crime 3 , serious assault (Cohen et al., 2004).”
Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws (2008, positive): “We find very similar results using relative victimization cost estimates from Mark A. Cohen et al. (2004).”
The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health (2016, neutral): “While most of the previous literature has implemented either contingent valuation methods based on stated preferences (Cohen et al., 2004; Atkinson et al., 2005),(4) or hedonic price models based on revealed preferences (Gibbons, 2004; Linden and Rockoff, 2008),(5) our study focuses on the detriment”
Public preferences for rehabilitation versus incarceration of juvenile offenders (2010, methodology): “The Cohen et al. (2004) study claimed a response rate of 58 percent using the method of this study when comparing only those who answered the phone to those who responded, and a 43 percent response rate when including all ‘eligible’ respondents (including those who did not answer the phone, etc.).”
New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving a High Risk Youth (2009, methodology): “Table 5 provides updated 2007 dollar estimates of the cost of individual crimes using the bottom up approach from Miller et al. (1996), and the WTP approach from Cohen et al. (2004) .”
Public Safety through Private Action: an Economic Assessment of BIDS* (2011, positive): “Ludwig and Cook (2001) utilised a contingent-valuation survey to estimate willingness to pay for a reduction in gun violence and Cohen et al. (2004) applied this method to estimating the value of reducing several other types of crime.”
More Time, Less Crime? Estimating the Incapacitative Effect of Sentence Enhancements (2009, neutral): “More recent studies (Cohen et al. 2004; Rockoff and Linden 2006) have suggested that the social cost of crime may be significantly higher. Still, the estimates of Miller, Cohen, and Wiersema (1996) provide the most disaggregated estimates for the largest number of crimes and yield the most conservat”
Are U.S. Cities Underpoliced? Theory and Evidence (2017, background): “Unfortunately, for crimes other than murder, the only study to utilize an ex ante perspective is Cohen et al. (2004).”
Murder by numbers: monetary costs imposed by a sample of homicide offenders (2010, background): “Based on a nationally representative sample (n ¼ 1300), Cohen et al. (2004) found that WTP estimates were between 1.5 and 10 times higher than previous estimates of the costs of crime because they encompassed collateral costs.”
The cost of crime to society: new crime-specific estimates for policy and program evaluation. (2010, methodology): “, 1996; Viscusi and Aldy, 2003), the willingness-to-pay (WTP) approach (Cohen et al., 2004; Ludwig and Cook, 2001; Viscusi and Zeckauser, 2008; Baron and Maxwell, 1996), the life satisfaction approach (Frey et al.”