The Causal Effect of Gun Violence on Everyday Mobility Patterns Across US Neighborhoods
Gun violence takes an enormous toll on neighborhoods and their residents in important ways. While research has identified that violence makes neighborhoods less appealing and livable, few studies have fully quantified the effect of violence on neighborhoods’ vitality and dynamism. In this study, we introduce the notion of ‘neighborhood activity,’ which we measure by the unique number of everyday visitors those neighborhoods receive from residents of other neighborhoods. Drawing on a large geographically-coded dataset of 30,000 gun violence […]