A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF CRIME AND INEQUALITY IN COLOMBIA
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Bourguignon, Francois; Nunez, Jairo; Sanchez, Fabio
署名单位：
The World Bank; Universite PSL; Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
ISSN/ISSBN：
1542-4766
DOI：
10.1162/154247603322391071
发表日期：
2003
页码：
440-449
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摘要：
Economic theory suggests that inequality should influence crime positively. Yet, the evidence in favor of that hypothesis is weak. Pure cross-sectional analyses show significant positive effects but cannot control for fixed effects. Time series and panel data point to a variety of results, but few turn out being significant. The hypothesis maintained in this paper is that it is a specific part of the distribution, rather than the overall distribution as summarized by conventional inequality measures, that is most likely to influence the rate of (property) crime in a given society. Using a simple theoretical model and panel data in seven Colombian cities over a fifteen-year period, a structural model is proposed that permits identifying the precise segment of the population whose relative income best explains time changes in crime. (JEL: K42, D63, O15)
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