Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question

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Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago; Freira, Lucia
Año de publicación
2023
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The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin America and Caribbean region. We find a significant, positive, and robust association between these variables. Moreover, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and poverty show weaker and unstable relationships with crime. With due caution, the use of historical variables to instrument for inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the analysis of the distribution of crime victimization indicates that men suffer more crime than women, and that the male-to-female homicide ratio grows with inequality. By socio-economic strata, high-income groups suffer more victimization relative to poorer groups in LAC countries, but the poor suffer more homicides.
Fil: Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Freira, Lucia. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
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CRIME
INEQUALITY
POVERTY
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
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spelling Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old QuestionSchargrodsky, Ernesto SantiagoFreira, LuciaCRIMEINEQUALITYPOVERTYLATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEANhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin America and Caribbean region. We find a significant, positive, and robust association between these variables. Moreover, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and poverty show weaker and unstable relationships with crime. With due caution, the use of historical variables to instrument for inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the analysis of the distribution of crime victimization indicates that men suffer more crime than women, and that the male-to-female homicide ratio grows with inequality. By socio-economic strata, high-income groups suffer more victimization relative to poorer groups in LAC countries, but the poor suffer more homicides.Fil: Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Freira, Lucia. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; ArgentinaBrookings Institution Press2023-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/239586Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago; Freira, Lucia; Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question; Brookings Institution Press; Economía; 22; 1; 11-2023; 175-2021533-6239CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://economia.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31389/eco.413/info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.31389/eco.413info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:38:35Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/239586instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:38:36.131CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
title Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
spellingShingle Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago
CRIME
INEQUALITY
POVERTY
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
title_short Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
title_full Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
title_fullStr Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
title_full_unstemmed Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
title_sort Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago
Freira, Lucia
author Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago
author_facet Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago
Freira, Lucia
author_role author
author2 Freira, Lucia
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv CRIME
INEQUALITY
POVERTY
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
topic CRIME
INEQUALITY
POVERTY
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin America and Caribbean region. We find a significant, positive, and robust association between these variables. Moreover, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and poverty show weaker and unstable relationships with crime. With due caution, the use of historical variables to instrument for inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the analysis of the distribution of crime victimization indicates that men suffer more crime than women, and that the male-to-female homicide ratio grows with inequality. By socio-economic strata, high-income groups suffer more victimization relative to poorer groups in LAC countries, but the poor suffer more homicides.
Fil: Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Freira, Lucia. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
description The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin America and Caribbean region. We find a significant, positive, and robust association between these variables. Moreover, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and poverty show weaker and unstable relationships with crime. With due caution, the use of historical variables to instrument for inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the analysis of the distribution of crime victimization indicates that men suffer more crime than women, and that the male-to-female homicide ratio grows with inequality. By socio-economic strata, high-income groups suffer more victimization relative to poorer groups in LAC countries, but the poor suffer more homicides.
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Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago; Freira, Lucia; Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question; Brookings Institution Press; Economía; 22; 1; 11-2023; 175-202
1533-6239
CONICET Digital
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