ArticleSecurity journal2022
Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment.
Article in Security journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The effect of citywide improvement in street lighting on the use of public space by community residents.Justice quarterly : JQ · 2026Article
- Pathways to Mental Health: Exploring the Relationships Among Neighborhood Hostility, Crime, Built Environment, and Perceived Safety.Journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- Seeing Through Feeling: Dynamic Interplay Between Emotion and Visual Perception.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Energy efficiency of quasi-monochromatic LEDs for road lighting under mesopic vision.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Can Enhanced Street Lighting Improve Public Safety at Scale?Criminology & public policy · 2026Article
- Mitigating light pollution impacts on arthropods based on light-emitting diode properties.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- The impact of public lighting improvement on crimes and incivilities reduction in Chile.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Working hours influence preferences of residents for micro features of small urban green spaces.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The subject-environment interplay between runners from different Brazilian macro-regions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Observational evidence suggests that better ambient lighting leads people to feel safer when spending time outdoors in their community. We subject this finding to greater scrutiny and elaborate on the extent to which improvements in street lighting affect routine activities during nighttime hours. We report evidence from a survey experiment that examines individuals' perceptions of safety under two different intensities of nighttime ambient lighting. Brighter street lighting leads individuals to feel safer and over half of survey respondents are willing to pay an additional $400 per year in taxes in order to finance a hypothetical program which would replace dim yellow street lights with brighter LED lights. However, poor lighting does not change people's willingness to spend time outdoors or to engage in behaviors which mitigate risk. Results suggest that street lighting is a means through which policymakers can both control crime and improve community well-being. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41284-021-00296-0.
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