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Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago
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Freira, Lucia
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2024-07-11T10:59:55Z
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2023-11
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Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago; Freira, Lucia; Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question; Brookings Institution Press; Economía; 22; 1; 11-2023; 175-202
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1533-6239
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/239586
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The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin America and Caribbean region. We find a significant, positive, and robust association between these variables. Moreover, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and poverty show weaker and unstable relationships with crime. With due caution, the use of historical variables to instrument for inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the analysis of the distribution of crime victimization indicates that men suffer more crime than women, and that the male-to-female homicide ratio grows with inequality. By socio-economic strata, high-income groups suffer more victimization relative to poorer groups in LAC countries, but the poor suffer more homicides.
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eng
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Brookings Institution Press
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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CRIME
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INEQUALITY
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POVERTY
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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
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Economía, Econometría
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Economía y Negocios
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CIENCIAS SOCIALES
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2024-07-10T12:52:51Z
dc.journal.volume
22
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1
dc.journal.pagination
175-202
dc.journal.pais
Reino Unido
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Fil: Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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Fil: Freira, Lucia. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
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Economía
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://economia.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31389/eco.413/
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.31389/eco.413
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