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
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
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

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spelling	okr-10986-169462021-04-23T14:03:33Z Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico Enamorado, Ted López-Calva, Luis F. Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos 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 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 the past decade -- this study circumvents two of the most common problems faced by researchers in this area. These are: (i) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation. Combining income data from poverty maps, administrative records on crime and violence, and public expenditures data at the municipal level for Mexico (2005-2010), the analysis finds evidence indicating that drug-related crimes indeed deter growth. It also finds no evidence of a negative effect on growth from crimes unrelated to drug trafficking. 2014-02-05T20:29:13Z 2014-02-05T20:29:13Z 2013-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18683099/crime-growth-convergence-evidence-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16946 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6730 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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topic	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
spellingShingle	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 Enamorado, Ted López-Calva, Luis F. Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
geographic_facet	Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6730
description	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 the past decade -- this study circumvents two of the most common problems faced by researchers in this area. These are: (i) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation. Combining income data from poverty maps, administrative records on crime and violence, and public expenditures data at the municipal level for Mexico (2005-2010), the analysis finds evidence indicating that drug-related crimes indeed deter growth. It also finds no evidence of a negative effect on growth from crimes unrelated to drug trafficking.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Enamorado, Ted López-Calva, Luis F. Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos
author_facet	Enamorado, Ted López-Calva, Luis F. Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos
author_sort	Enamorado, Ted
title	Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
title_short	Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
title_full	Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
title_fullStr	Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
title_sort	crime and growth convergence : evidence from mexico
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18683099/crime-growth-convergence-evidence-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16946
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Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico

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