@article{924b9a6341f64eb188caf2f0753536a9,
title = "Crime, weather and climate change in Australia",
abstract = "We estimate the effect of temperature on monthly crime using a panel dataset that matches weather with crime rates for over 3,000 postcodes in Australia over the period 2001–2019. We find that a standard deviation increase in average temperature is associated with a 0.008–0.011 standard deviation increase in the crime rate, depending on the specification. This translates to over 72,000 additional crimes per year across Australia. We estimate that over the course of the rest of the century, under a business-as-usual pathway, climate change will be responsible for approximately 1.64 million additional crimes.",
author = "{Awaworyi Churchill}, Sefa and Russell Smyth and Trong-Anh Trinh",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the state governments and police force of Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory for providing us with access to the local area crime data. The findings and views reported in this paper are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the relevant police force or state or territory governments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors. Economic Record published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Economic Society of Australia.",
year = "2023",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1111/1475-4932.12720",
language = "English",
volume = "99",
pages = "84--107",
journal = "Economic Record",
issn = "0013-0249",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "324",
}
