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Broadband Internet: An Information
Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Manudeep Bhuller Tarjei Havnes Edwin Leuven
Magne Mogstad
October 11, 2011
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Table of Contents
Motivation and Literature
Theoretical Framework
Data
Empirical Strategy
Results
Discussion and Conclusion
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Motivation
Motivation
Political and public concern about the potential adverse
effects of internet. In particular, does the internet use trigger
sex crime?
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Motivation
Motivation
Political and public concern about the potential adverse
effects of internet. In particular, does the internet use trigger
sex crime?
An empirical work which uses plausibly exogenous variation in
the internet use to address the issue: a public program
introduced by the Norwegian government in the late 1990s
provided some spatial and temporal variation in the internet
access
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Literature
Literature
Efficiency enhancing effects of internet
• Brown and Goolsbee (2002): whether internet makes markets
more competitive
• Freund and Weinhold (2004), Choi (2003): internet’s effect on
bilateral trade and foreign direct investment
• Choi and Yi (2005), Choi and Yi (2009): how internet affects
inflation and economic growth
• Saint-Paul (2009): search engines and economic growth
• George (2008), Ward (2007): how internet affects the markets
for daily newspapers and local music stores
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Literature
Literature
Efficiency enhancing effects of internet
• Brown and Goolsbee (2002): whether internet makes markets
more competitive
• Freund and Weinhold (2004), Choi (2003): internet’s effect on
bilateral trade and foreign direct investment
• Choi and Yi (2005), Choi and Yi (2009): how internet affects
inflation and economic growth
• Saint-Paul (2009): search engines and economic growth
• George (2008), Ward (2007): how internet affects the markets
for daily newspapers and local music stores
Internet and sex crime related literature:
• Kendall (2007): pornography, rape, and internet
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Parameters:
• N – the population size
• λ – the per year rate at which people meet
• M = λN – number of matches per year
• p = Pr {crime|match} – the probability that a match leads to
a sex crime
• C = pM – number of committed sex crimes per year (or
c = pλ the sex crime rate in per capita terms)
• q = Pr {report|crime} – the probability of reporting a crime
• c ∗ = qc – the reported sex crime rate
• i – the internet user rate (fraction of the population with the
broadband internet access)
The internet user rate i may influence p, λ or q
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Internet access and crime propensity
The effects of the internet access on the crime propensity
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Internet access and crime propensity
The effects of the internet access on the crime propensity
• Probability p depends on the latent risk factor r (∂p/∂r > 0)
which in turn may depend on the consumption of pornography
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Internet access and crime propensity
The effects of the internet access on the crime propensity
• Probability p depends on the latent risk factor r (∂p/∂r > 0)
which in turn may depend on the consumption of pornography
∂p ∂p ∂r ∂porn
• Then = · ·
∂i ∂r ∂porn ∂i
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Internet access and crime propensity
The effects of the internet access on the crime propensity
• Probability p depends on the latent risk factor r (∂p/∂r > 0)
which in turn may depend on the consumption of pornography
∂p ∂p ∂r ∂porn
• Then = · ·
∂i ∂r ∂porn ∂i
Internet decreases both pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of
pornography consumption (⇒ ∂porn/∂i > 0)
• Triple-A effect: accessibility, affordability, anonymity
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Internet access and crime propensity
Pornography may trigger sexual aggression, it degrades
women or children to objects and affects social and individual
norms (⇒ ∂r /∂porn > 0): Zillman (1971), Dworkin (1981),
Mackinnon (1995)
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Internet access and crime propensity
Pornography may trigger sexual aggression, it degrades
women or children to objects and affects social and individual
norms (⇒ ∂r /∂porn > 0): Zillman (1971), Dworkin (1981),
Mackinnon (1995)
There are potential cathartic effects of pornography
consumption which decrease sexual aggression
(⇒ ∂r /∂porn < 0)
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Internet access and crime propensity
In psychology much effort was devoted to laboratory
experiments which study the effect of pornography
consumption on sexual aggression
• Some find no effect or a reduction in aggression: Zillman and
Bryant (1984)
• The majority of studies find that pornography consumption
(especially of violent pornography) increases aggression
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Internet access and the reported sex crime rate
The effects of the internet access on the reported sex crime
rate: c ∗ (i, r ) = q(i)c(i, r ) = q(i)p(r )λ(i) and therefore
dc ∗ dq dλ ∂p dr
= c + qp + qλ
di di di ∂r di
reporting matching direct
effect effect effect
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Internet access and the reported sex crime rate
The effects of the internet access on the reported sex crime
rate: c ∗ (i, r ) = q(i)c(i, r ) = q(i)p(r )λ(i) and therefore
dc ∗ dq dλ ∂p dr
= c + qp + qλ
di di di ∂r di
reporting matching direct
effect effect effect
Reporting effect: effect of the internet use on q
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Internet access and the reported sex crime rate
The effects of the internet access on the reported sex crime
rate: c ∗ (i, r ) = q(i)c(i, r ) = q(i)p(r )λ(i) and therefore
dc ∗ dq dλ ∂p dr
= c + qp + qλ
di di di ∂r di
reporting matching direct
effect effect effect
Reporting effect: effect of the internet use on q
Matching effect: effect of the internet use on λ
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Internet access and the reported sex crime rate
The effects of the internet access on the reported sex crime
rate: c ∗ (i, r ) = q(i)c(i, r ) = q(i)p(r )λ(i) and therefore
dc ∗ dq dλ ∂p dr
= c + qp + qλ
di di di ∂r di
reporting matching direct
effect effect effect
Reporting effect: effect of the internet use on q
Matching effect: effect of the internet use on λ
Direct effect: effect of the internet use on r
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Reporting effect
Reporting effect
There is no possibility to report crimes online in Norway
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Reporting effect
Reporting effect
There is no possibility to report crimes online in Norway
Internet can decrease the stigma of being a victim of a sex
crime (e.g. by increasing awareness or facilitating contact with
victims or support groups)
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Reporting effect
Reporting effect
There is no possibility to report crimes online in Norway
Internet can decrease the stigma of being a victim of a sex
crime (e.g. by increasing awareness or facilitating contact with
victims or support groups)
The authors found no systematic studies of the subject
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Matching effect
Matching effect
Internet may reduce information constraints (in particular,
dating sites provide a lot of information)
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Matching effect
Matching effect
Internet may reduce information constraints (in particular,
dating sites provide a lot of information)
Internet may expand the choice set and make those matches
available which were previously unavailable
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Matching effect
Matching effect
Internet may reduce information constraints (in particular,
dating sites provide a lot of information)
Internet may expand the choice set and make those matches
available which were previously unavailable
The anonymity may expand the pool of people looking for a
match
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Matching effect
Matching effect
Internet may reduce information constraints (in particular,
dating sites provide a lot of information)
Internet may expand the choice set and make those matches
available which were previously unavailable
The anonymity may expand the pool of people looking for a
match
Incapacitation and substitution effects: the time spent online
may reduce the amount of matches
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Direct effect
Direct effect
This is the effect of interest: how the internet use influences
sexual aggression and affects the number of committed sex
crimes
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Crime data
Crime data
Administrative police registers:
• Reported crimes for each municipality over 1993 – 2008
• Individual criminal charges for every resident over 1993 – 2004
Crime categories: overall reported sex crime, reported rape
(25%), reported child sex abuse (45%)
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Internet access data
Internet access data
The fraction of households with broadband internet
subscriptions (faster than 256 kbit/s) for each municipality
over 2000 – 2008
The fraction of households covered by one of the broadband
internet providers in each municipality over 2000 – 2008
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Internet access data
Broadband internet expansion
The expansion of internet was viewed by many governments
as essential for retaining competitiveness and achieving high
standards of living
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Internet access data
Broadband internet expansion
The expansion of internet was viewed by many governments
as essential for retaining competitiveness and achieving high
standards of living
The National Broadband policy was introduced in Norway in
May 1998:
• Every household and private enterprise should have access to
broadband internet at a reasonable and uniform price
• The public sector should quickly adopt broadband internet
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Internet access data
Broadband internet expansion
The expansion of internet was viewed by many governments
as essential for retaining competitiveness and achieving high
standards of living
The National Broadband policy was introduced in Norway in
May 1998:
• Every household and private enterprise should have access to
broadband internet at a reasonable and uniform price
• The public sector should quickly adopt broadband internet
The staged implementation was caused by limited funding and
geography
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Internet access data
Broadband internet expansion
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Figure 2. Broadband internet expansion across Norway
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Socio-demographic data
Socio-demographic data
Individual socio-demographic information from 1993 to 2008:
gender, age, immigrant status, country of origin, marital
status, number of children, years of education, income,
employment status, geographic identifiers
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Empirical strategy
Fixed effects regression:
∗
ckt = δikt + xkt β + αk + τt + εkt
Instrumental variables (first step):
ikt = φzk,t−1 + xkt β + γk + θt + ηkt
• ikt is the fraction of households with broadband internet
subscription
• zkt is the fraction of households covered by one of the providers
• xkt is the vector of controls
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Empirical strategy
In the equations above k corresponds to municipality, t
corresponds to year
Controls xkt include:
• Socio-demographic characteristics of municipalities
• Additional variables: poverty rate, police officers per capita,
urban settlement, unemployment rate, crime rate (excluding
sex crimes)
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Fixed effects
Fixed effects
Possible upward bias: those who commit sex crimes also tend
to consume more internet pornography and thus use internet
a lot
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Fixed effects
Fixed effects
Possible upward bias: those who commit sex crimes also tend
to consume more internet pornography and thus use internet
a lot
Possible downward bias: potential sex offenders may use
internet more intensively in the areas with fewer potential
victims
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Instrumental variables
Instrumental variables
The authors treat the broadband internet coverage as an
instrument for internet use and consider it to be random
relative to sex crimes
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Instrumental variables
Instrumental variables
The authors treat the broadband internet coverage as an
instrument for internet use and consider it to be random
relative to sex crimes
The internet user rate ikt is instrumented by the previous year
coverage rate zk,t−1
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Instrumental variables
Instrumental variables
The authors treat the broadband internet coverage as an
instrument for internet use and consider it to be random
relative to sex crimes
The internet user rate ikt is instrumented by the previous year
coverage rate zk,t−1
To find some evidence in favor of the validity of this
instrument the authors regress ∆zkt on the set of
socio-demographic features in the base year (2000) and find
no systematic effect of such sex crime risk factors as
immigrant population share, poverty rate and so on
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Fixed effects
FE estimates
0.466∗∗ 0.549∗∗ 0.546∗∗ 0.570∗∗
All sex crimes
(0.197) (0.212) (0.212) (0.210)
0.141∗∗ 0.127∗ 0.127∗ 0.130∗
Rape
(0.071) (0.071) (0.071) (0.071)
0.158 0.180 0.180 0.193
Child sex abuse
(0.134) (0.147) (0.147) (0.145)
Demographic
controls
Police density
Other crimes
Note: Crime rates are calculated per 100,000 persons. Effects are reported per
percentage point increase in the internet user rate. Standard errors are
heteroskedasticity robust and clustered at the municipality level.
* p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
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Instrumental variables
IV estimates
1.152∗∗ 1.167∗∗ 1.166∗∗ 1.217∗∗
All sex crimes
(0.518) (0.534) (0.534) (0.533)
0.378∗∗ 0.391∗∗ 0.390∗∗ 0.401∗∗
Rape
(0.163) (0.164) (0.164) (0.164)
0.616∗ 0.421 0.421 0.443
Child sex abuse
(0.355) (0.370) (0.370) (0.370)
Demographic
controls
Police density
Other crimes
Note: Crime rates are calculated per 100,000 persons. Effects are reported per
percentage point increase in the internet user rate. Standard errors are
heteroskedasticity robust and clustered at the municipality level.
* p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
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Instrumental variables
Economic significance
Counterfactual sex crime rates
• The estimates suggest that about 3.5% of the total number of
sex crimes which occured between 2000 and 2008 would have
been avoided
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Instrumental variables
Economic significance
Counterfactual sex crime rates
• The estimates suggest that about 3.5% of the total number of
sex crimes which occured between 2000 and 2008 would have
been avoided
• When the actual trends are compared with the counterfactual
ones the difference peaks in 2006 when according to the
estimates roughly 3 out of 50 sex crimes per 100,000
inhabitants would have been avoided
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Robustness checks
Different specifications
Municipality-specific trends are estimated using the prior data
and then included in the regression
Linear time trend interacted with baseline variables (as of year
2000)
The same for time dummies
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Robustness checks
Placebo tests
The internet expansion is placed in the period before the
actual roll-out (more precisely in 1993 – 2000)
Future internet use is added to check whether it affects the
current sex crime rate
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Robustness checks
More tests
Outliers excluded
Large cities excluded (to control for changes between rural
and urban areas which coincide with the expansion)
Sex crimes in neighboring municipalities are included
Sorting is checked (the potential offenders could move to the
areas with expanding broadband internet)
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Discussion
Discussion
The study by Kendell (2007) regresses the amount of rape
incidences on the fraction of households with internet access
and finds a negative association
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Discussion
Discussion
The study by Kendell (2007) regresses the amount of rape
incidences on the fraction of households with internet access
and finds a negative association
The new estimates are potentially less biased
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Discussion
Discussion
The study by Kendell (2007) regresses the amount of rape
incidences on the fraction of households with internet access
and finds a negative association
The new estimates are potentially less biased
• Norway has much more homogeneous population than the
United States
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Discussion
Discussion
The study by Kendell (2007) regresses the amount of rape
incidences on the fraction of households with internet access
and finds a negative association
The new estimates are potentially less biased
• Norway has much more homogeneous population than the
United States
• Pornography was banned in Norway and broadband internet
made it easily available
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Discussion
Mechanisms
Reporting effect:
• Marginal reports are expected to be weaker and the ratio of
charges to reports is expected to decrease. No evidence
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Discussion
Mechanisms
Reporting effect:
• Marginal reports are expected to be weaker and the ratio of
charges to reports is expected to decrease. No evidence
• Other changes in reporting behavior. The timing of reports
could change. No evidence
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Discussion
Mechanisms
Reporting effect:
• Marginal reports are expected to be weaker and the ratio of
charges to reports is expected to decrease. No evidence
• Other changes in reporting behavior. The timing of reports
could change. No evidence
Matching effect:
• If the time spent online crowds out other activities there
should be effect on crimes other than sex crimes. No evidence
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Discussion
Mechanisms
Reporting effect:
• Marginal reports are expected to be weaker and the ratio of
charges to reports is expected to decrease. No evidence
• Other changes in reporting behavior. The timing of reports
could change. No evidence
Matching effect:
• If the time spent online crowds out other activities there
should be effect on crimes other than sex crimes. No evidence
Direct effect:
• Prior availability of pornography should lower the internet
access effect. The effect is weaker in border areas
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Conclusion
Conclusion
The estimates suggest that broadband internet use is
associated with an increase in the amount of reported rapes
and other sex crimes
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Conclusion
Conclusion
The estimates suggest that broadband internet use is
associated with an increase in the amount of reported rapes
and other sex crimes
The finding can be important for the ongoing debate
regarding internet regulation
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Conclusion
Conclusion
The estimates suggest that broadband internet use is
associated with an increase in the amount of reported rapes
and other sex crimes
The finding can be important for the ongoing debate
regarding internet regulation
If the matching effect is important than the policy response
may be to provide more information about the risks associated
with the internet use
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