Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question
- Autores
- Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago; Freira, Lucia
- Año de publicación
- 2023
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- 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 - Materia
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CRIME
INEQUALITY
POVERTY
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN - Nivel de accesibilidad
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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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 |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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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 |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question |
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Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago Freira, Lucia |
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Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago |
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CRIME INEQUALITY POVERTY LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN |
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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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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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