Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia

Much of the literature on victimization looks at effect organized violence (OV) civilian perceptions and behaviour. Yet citizens in countries experience quotidian crime (QC) a daily basis. QC differs from OV, former being more isolated, while latter is collective experience. As such we develop theoretical framework that explores effects both types preferences for public goods. Victims OV may prefer welfare goods entire community, whereas victims security themselves. We also test compound goods’ preferences. use original survey data rural Liberia to our hypotheses find support argument. Our results show importance disaggregated approach understanding