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Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico

Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over t...

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Main Authors:	Enamorado, Ted, López-Calva, Luis F., Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ARMED FORCES ASSASSINATION CELLS COLLAPSE CORRUPTION CRIME CRIME RATE CRIME RATES CRIMES CRIMINAL CRIMINAL ACTIONS CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DRUG DRUG TRAFFIC DRUG TRAFFICKING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE ERROR TERM FIREARMS GROWTH RATE HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES HOMICIDE HOMICIDE RATE HOMICIDE RATES HOMICIDES INCOME DATA INCOME GROWTH INVESTIGATION INVESTMENT CLIMATE LABOR FORCE LAGGED VALUES LAW-ENFORCEMENT LEADERSHIP LEVELS OF CRIME MURDER MURDERS NATIONAL SECURITY NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE SIGN ORGANIZED CRIME PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY REDUCTION PRISON PUBLIC EXPENDITURES RAPID GROWTH SECURITY COSTS SOCIAL SECURITY STANDARD DEVIATION THEFT THREAT TORTURE URBAN AREAS VANDALISM VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENT CRIME spatial inequality convergence
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18683099/crime-growth-convergence-evidence-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16946

Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico

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