Income Inequality and Violent Crime : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

The relationship between income inequality and crime has attracted the interest of many researchers, but little convincing evidence exists on the causal effect of inequality on crime in developing countries. This paper estimates this effect in a un...

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Main Authors: Enamorado, Ted, López-Calva, Luis-Felipe, Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos, Winkler, Hernán
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
WAR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19705699/income-inequality-violent-crime-evidence-mexicos-drug-war
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18825

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