What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia
Inequality has always been taken as a major explanatory factor of the rate of crime. Yet, the evidence in favor of that hypothesis is weak. Pure cross-sectional analyses show significant positive effects but do not control for fixed effects. Time series and panel data point to a variety of results,...
- Autores:
-
Bourguignon, François
Sánchez Torres, Fabio José
Núñez Méndez, Jairo Augusto
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2003
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8302
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8302
- Palabra clave:
- Crime economics
Income distribution
Inequality
Delitos contra la propiedad - Aspectos socioeconómicos - Colombia
Pobreza - Aspectos socioeconómicos - Colombia
Colombia - Condiciones económicas
Colombia - Condiciones sociales
C23, D3, D63, K42
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/