The crime kuznets curve

We document the existence of a Crime Kuznets Curve in US states since the 1970s. As income levels have risen, crime has followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, first increasing and then dropping. The Crime Kuznets Curve is not explained by income inequality. In fact, we show that during the sample pe...

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Criminología
Crime Kuznets Curve
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The crime kuznets curve
title The crime kuznets curve
spellingShingle The crime kuznets curve
Criminología
Crime Kuznets Curve
Income inequality
Non-parametric Kernel analysis
Crimen::Aspectos Económicos
Delincuencia::Estados Unidos
Modelos matemáticos::Aspectos Sociales
title_short The crime kuznets curve
title_full The crime kuznets curve
title_fullStr The crime kuznets curve
title_full_unstemmed The crime kuznets curve
title_sort The crime kuznets curve
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Criminología
Crime Kuznets Curve
Income inequality
Non-parametric Kernel analysis
Crimen::Aspectos Económicos
Delincuencia::Estados Unidos
Modelos matemáticos::Aspectos Sociales
topic Criminología
Crime Kuznets Curve
Income inequality
Non-parametric Kernel analysis
Crimen::Aspectos Económicos
Delincuencia::Estados Unidos
Modelos matemáticos::Aspectos Sociales
description We document the existence of a Crime Kuznets Curve in US states since the 1970s. As income levels have risen, crime has followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, first increasing and then dropping. The Crime Kuznets Curve is not explained by income inequality. In fact, we show that during the sample period inequality has risen monotonically with income, ruling out the traditional Kuznets Curve. Our finding is robust to adding a large set of controls that are used in the literature to explain the incidence of crime, as well as to controlling for state and year fixed effects. The Curve is also revealed in nonparametric specifications. The Crime Kuznets Curve exists for property crime and for some categories of violent crime.
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dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv Buonanno, P., Fergusson, L., & Vargas, J. F. (2014). The crime kuznets curve. Bogotá: Colombia.
https://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10835
http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10835
identifier_str_mv Buonanno, P., Fergusson, L., & Vargas, J. F. (2014). The crime kuznets curve. Bogotá: Colombia.
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dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv Universidad del Rosario
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Facultad de Economía
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv Aebi, M. (2004). “Crime Trends in Western Europe from 1990 to 2000”. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 10 (2-3), 163-186.
Allen, R. (1996). “Socioeconomic conditions and property crime”. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 55(3), 293-308.
Andreoni, J., & Levinson, A. (2001, May). “The simple analytics of the environmental Kuznets curve”. Journal of Public Economics, 80 (2), 269-286.
Becker, G. (1968). “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach”. Journal of Political Economy, 76 , 169.
Bertinelli, L., & Strobl, E. (2005, September.). “The Environmental Kuznets Curve semi-parametrically revisited”. Economics Letters, Elsevier , 88(3), 350-357.
Buonanno, P., Drago, F., & Galbiati, R. (2014, February). “How much should we trust crime statistics?A comparison between UE and US”. LIEPP Working Paper (19).
Buonanno, P., Drago, F., Galbiati, R., & Zanella, G. (2011). “Crime in Europe and in the US: Dissecting the Reversal of misfortunes. Economic Policy, 26(67), 347-385
Chiu, W., & Madden, P. (1998). “Burglary and income inequality”. Journal of Public Economics, 69 , 123-141.
Cole, M., Rayner, A., & Bates, J. (1997, November). “The environmental Kuznets curve: an empirical analysis”. Environment and Development Economics, 2 (04), 401-416.
Dasgupta, S., Laplante, B., Wang, H., & Wheeler, D. (2002, Winter). “Confronting the Environmental Kuznets Curve”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (1), 147-168.
Dills, A. K., Miron, J. A., & Summers, G. (2008). “What do economists know about crime?”. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 13759 .
DiNardo, J., & Tobias, J. L. (2001, Fall). “Nonparametric Density and Regression Estimation”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15 (4), 11-28.
Dinda, S. (2004, August). “Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Survey”. Ecological Economics, 49 (4), 431-455.
Donohue, J. J., & Levitt, S. (2001). “The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime”.The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (2), 379-420.
Durlauf, S., Navarro, S., & Rivers, D. (2010). “Understanding Aggregate Crime Regressions.”.Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming..
Ehrlich, I. (1973, May-June). “Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation”. Journal of Political Economy, 81 (3), 521-65.
Fougere, D., Kramarz, F., & Pouget, J. (2009). “Youth Unemployment and Crime in France”. Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(5), 909-938.
Frazer, G. (2006). “Inequality and Development Across and Within Countries”. World Development, 34 (9), 14591481.
Frazer, G. (2006). “Inequality and Development Across and Within Countries”. World Development, 34 (9), 14591481.
Galeotti, M., Lanza, A., & Pauli, F. (2006). “Reassessing the environmental Kuznets11 curve for CO2 emissions: A robustness exercise”. Ecological Economics, 57 (1), 152 - 163.
Galeotti, M., Manera, M., & Lanza, A. (2009, April). “On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis”. Environmental and Resource Economics, 42 (4), 551-574.
Gallup, J. (2012, September). “Is There a Kuznets Curve?”. (Portland State University)
Glaeser, E., & Sacerdote, B. (1999, December). “Why Is There more Crime in Cities?”.Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, 107(S6), S225-S258
Goldberger, A., & Rosenfeld, R. (2009). “Understanding Crime Trends”. Washington, DC: National Academies Press..
Gould, E., Weinberg, B., & Mustard, D. (2002). “Crime and Local Labor market Opportunities in the United States: 1979-1997”. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(3), 411- 422.
Grossman, G., & Krueger, A. (1995). “Economic growth and the Environment”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (2), 353-377.
Holtz-Eakin, D., & Selden, T. (1995). “Stoking the fires? CO2 emissions and economic growth”. Journal of Public Economics, 57 (1), 85 - 101.
Kanbur, R. (2012). “Does Kuznets Still matter?” (Working Papers No. 128794). Retrieved from http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:cudawp:128794
Kuznet, S. (1955). “Economic growth and Income Inequality”. The American Economic Review, 45 (1), 1-28
Levitt, S. (2004, Winter). “Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (1), 163-190.
Lieb, C. (2003). The environmental kuznets curve : A survey of the empirical evidence and of possible causes. University of Heidelberg, Department of Economic.
Lin, M.-J. (2008). “Does Unemployment Increase Crime?: Evidence from U.S. Data 19742000”. Journal of Human Resources, 43 (2), 413-436.
Oster, A., & Agell, J. (2007). “Crime and Unemployment in Turbulent Times”. Journal of the European Economic Association, 5 , 752775.
Poudel, B., Paudel, K., & Bhattarai, K. (2009). “Searching for an Environmental Kuznets Curve in Carbon Dioxide Pollutant in Latin American Countries”. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 41 (01), 13-27.
Raphael, S., & Winter-Ember, R. (2001, April). “Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime”. Journal of Law and Economics, 44 (1), 259-83.
Stern, D. (2004). “The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve ”. World Development, 32 (8), 1419 - 1439.
The Economist. (2013, July). “Falling crime: Where have all the burglars gone?”. Retrieved from Availablefrom:http://www.economist.com/news/ 12 briefing/21582041-rich-world-seeing-less-and-less-crime-even-face-high-unemployment-and-economic
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spelling The crime kuznets curveCriminologíaCrime Kuznets CurveIncome inequalityNon-parametric Kernel analysisCrimen::Aspectos EconómicosDelincuencia::Estados UnidosModelos matemáticos::Aspectos SocialesWe document the existence of a Crime Kuznets Curve in US states since the 1970s. As income levels have risen, crime has followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, first increasing and then dropping. The Crime Kuznets Curve is not explained by income inequality. In fact, we show that during the sample period inequality has risen monotonically with income, ruling out the traditional Kuznets Curve. Our finding is robust to adding a large set of controls that are used in the literature to explain the incidence of crime, as well as to controlling for state and year fixed effects. The Curve is also revealed in nonparametric specifications. The Crime Kuznets Curve exists for property crime and for some categories of violent crime.Universidad del RosarioFacultad de Economía20142015-09-19T17:17:02Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_804229 páginasRecurso electrónicoapplication/pdfDocumentoBuonanno, P., Fergusson, L., & Vargas, J. F. (2014). The crime kuznets curve. Bogotá: Colombia.https://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10835 http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10835Aebi, M. (2004). “Crime Trends in Western Europe from 1990 to 2000”. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 10 (2-3), 163-186.Allen, R. (1996). “Socioeconomic conditions and property crime”. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 55(3), 293-308.Andreoni, J., & Levinson, A. (2001, May). “The simple analytics of the environmental Kuznets curve”. Journal of Public Economics, 80 (2), 269-286.Becker, G. (1968). “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach”. Journal of Political Economy, 76 , 169.Bertinelli, L., & Strobl, E. (2005, September.). “The Environmental Kuznets Curve semi-parametrically revisited”. Economics Letters, Elsevier , 88(3), 350-357.Buonanno, P., Drago, F., & Galbiati, R. (2014, February). “How much should we trust crime statistics?A comparison between UE and US”. LIEPP Working Paper (19).Buonanno, P., Drago, F., Galbiati, R., & Zanella, G. (2011). “Crime in Europe and in the US: Dissecting the Reversal of misfortunes. Economic Policy, 26(67), 347-385Chiu, W., & Madden, P. (1998). “Burglary and income inequality”. Journal of Public Economics, 69 , 123-141.Cole, M., Rayner, A., & Bates, J. (1997, November). “The environmental Kuznets curve: an empirical analysis”. Environment and Development Economics, 2 (04), 401-416.Dasgupta, S., Laplante, B., Wang, H., & Wheeler, D. (2002, Winter). “Confronting the Environmental Kuznets Curve”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (1), 147-168.Dills, A. K., Miron, J. A., & Summers, G. (2008). “What do economists know about crime?”. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 13759 .DiNardo, J., & Tobias, J. L. (2001, Fall). “Nonparametric Density and Regression Estimation”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15 (4), 11-28.Dinda, S. (2004, August). “Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Survey”. Ecological Economics, 49 (4), 431-455.Donohue, J. J., & Levitt, S. (2001). “The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime”.The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (2), 379-420.Durlauf, S., Navarro, S., & Rivers, D. (2010). “Understanding Aggregate Crime Regressions.”.Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming..Ehrlich, I. (1973, May-June). “Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation”. Journal of Political Economy, 81 (3), 521-65.Fougere, D., Kramarz, F., & Pouget, J. (2009). “Youth Unemployment and Crime in France”. Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(5), 909-938.Frazer, G. (2006). “Inequality and Development Across and Within Countries”. World Development, 34 (9), 14591481.Frazer, G. (2006). “Inequality and Development Across and Within Countries”. World Development, 34 (9), 14591481.Galeotti, M., Lanza, A., & Pauli, F. (2006). “Reassessing the environmental Kuznets11 curve for CO2 emissions: A robustness exercise”. Ecological Economics, 57 (1), 152 - 163.Galeotti, M., Manera, M., & Lanza, A. (2009, April). “On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis”. Environmental and Resource Economics, 42 (4), 551-574.Gallup, J. (2012, September). “Is There a Kuznets Curve?”. (Portland State University)Glaeser, E., & Sacerdote, B. (1999, December). “Why Is There more Crime in Cities?”.Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, 107(S6), S225-S258Goldberger, A., & Rosenfeld, R. (2009). “Understanding Crime Trends”. Washington, DC: National Academies Press..Gould, E., Weinberg, B., & Mustard, D. (2002). “Crime and Local Labor market Opportunities in the United States: 1979-1997”. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(3), 411- 422.Grossman, G., & Krueger, A. (1995). “Economic growth and the Environment”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (2), 353-377.Holtz-Eakin, D., & Selden, T. (1995). “Stoking the fires? CO2 emissions and economic growth”. Journal of Public Economics, 57 (1), 85 - 101.Kanbur, R. (2012). “Does Kuznets Still matter?” (Working Papers No. 128794). Retrieved from http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:cudawp:128794Kuznet, S. (1955). “Economic growth and Income Inequality”. The American Economic Review, 45 (1), 1-28Levitt, S. (2004, Winter). “Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (1), 163-190.Lieb, C. (2003). The environmental kuznets curve : A survey of the empirical evidence and of possible causes. University of Heidelberg, Department of Economic.Lin, M.-J. (2008). “Does Unemployment Increase Crime?: Evidence from U.S. Data 19742000”. Journal of Human Resources, 43 (2), 413-436.Oster, A., & Agell, J. (2007). “Crime and Unemployment in Turbulent Times”. Journal of the European Economic Association, 5 , 752775.Poudel, B., Paudel, K., & Bhattarai, K. (2009). “Searching for an Environmental Kuznets Curve in Carbon Dioxide Pollutant in Latin American Countries”. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 41 (01), 13-27.Raphael, S., & Winter-Ember, R. (2001, April). “Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime”. Journal of Law and Economics, 44 (1), 259-83.Stern, D. (2004). “The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve ”. World Development, 32 (8), 1419 - 1439.The Economist. (2013, July). “Falling crime: Where have all the burglars gone?”. 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