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We further explored social capital and mental health as channels through which neighbourhood crime influences risky drinking behaviour.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Using 18 waves of household longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey for the period 2002 to 2019 merged with official police statistics on neighbourhood crime rates, we adopted fixed-effect regression models that allow us to address concerns relating to endogenous sorting of participants as well as omitted variable bias.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We find that an increase in neighbourhood crime is associated with an increase in the likelihood of risky drinking (OR=1.107, 95% CI 1.073 to 1.120), alcohol expenditure (<jats:italic>b<\/jats:italic>=0.063, 95% CI 0.041 to 0.076), alcohol consumption frequency (<jats:italic>b<\/jats:italic>=0.071, 95% CI 0.055 to 0.083) and quantity (<jats:italic>b<\/jats:italic>=0.046, 95% CI 0.032 to 0.052). 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