Liang, Yang; Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
first to explore the relationship between U.S. robotics expansions and crime. Instrumental variables estimates show that a … 10 percent increase in robotics exposure led to a 0.2 to 0.3 percent increase in property crime arrests. In contrast, we … find little evidence of a relationship between robotics expansions and violent crime. Our estimates are consistent with …