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:
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Bourguignon, François
Sánchez Torres, Fabio José
Núñez Méndez, Jairo Augusto
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- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2003
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
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- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
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- eng
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- 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
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia 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 |
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
title_fullStr |
What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
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What part of the income distribution matters for explaining property crime? The case of Colombia |
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Bourguignon, François Sánchez Torres, Fabio José Núñez Méndez, Jairo Augusto |
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Bourguignon, François Sánchez Torres, Fabio José Núñez Méndez, Jairo Augusto |
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Crime economics Income distribution Inequality |
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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 |
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Delitos contra la propiedad - Aspectos socioeconómicos - Colombia Pobreza - Aspectos socioeconómicos - Colombia Colombia - Condiciones económicas Colombia - Condiciones sociales |
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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, but few turn out being significant. The hypothesis maintained in this paper is that it is a specific part of the distribution, rather than the overall distribution as summarized by conventional inequality measures, that is most likely to influence the rate of (property) crime in a given society. Using a simple theoretical model and panel data in 7 Colombian cities over a 20 year period, we design a method that permits identifying the precise segment of the population whose relative income best explains time changes in crime. |
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