Bindler, A., Hjalmarsson, R., Ketel, N. and Mitrut, A. (2024). Discontinuities in the Age-Victimisation Profile and the Determinants of Victimisation Economic Journal, 134(657):95–134.
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Publication year2024
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JournalEconomic Journal
Dutch victimisation rates increase by 9%–15% immediately upon reaching ages 16 and 18. We disentangle the role of the many rights granted at these ages using offence location data, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform and survey data of alcohol/drug consumption and mobility behaviours. We conclude that access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases victimisation at 16 and that age-18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play an important role. We find no evidence of systematic spillovers onto individuals still ineligible for these rights.