Income Inequality and Violent Crime : Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War
The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of inequality on crime rates in a unique context, Mexico's drug war. The analysis exploits an original dataset containing inequality and crime statistics on more than 2000 Mexican municipalities over a 20-year period. To uncover the causal effect...
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| Language: | en_US |
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Elsevier
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24872 |