College Party Culture and Sexual Assault
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 10,
no. 1, January 2018
(pp. 236-65)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law enforcement agencies and an identification strategy that exploits plausibly random variation in the timing of Division 1 football games. The estimates indicate that these events increase daily reports of rape with 17–24-year-old victims by 28 percent. The effects are driven largely by 17–24-year-old offenders and by offenders unknown to the victim, but we also find significant effects on incidents involving offenders of other ages and on incidents involving offenders known to the victim.Citation
Lindo, Jason M., Peter Siminski, and Isaac D. Swensen. 2018. "College Party Culture and Sexual Assault." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (1): 236-65. DOI: 10.1257/app.20160031Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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