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Income inequality and crime in the United States
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In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between income inequality and crime and found that there is a strong and robust effect of relative income inequality on burglary, and that the effect on robbery is also strong in most cases.About:
This article is published in Economics Letters.The article was published on 2008-10-01. It has received 144 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.read more
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Inequality and crime: Evidence from Russia's regions
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of inequality on crime in Russia's 88 regional entities from 2000 to 2005 using dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation techniques and found that inequality has a significant, positive effect on murders, robberies, thefts and juvenile crimes.
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Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Luke Petach,Anita Alves Pena +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that the rise of mass incarceration in the United States can be framed through the lens of stratification economics, which views race and class-based discrimination as a rational attemp...
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The U.S. Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on U.S. Crime and Punishment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared actual U.S. crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions, and argued that the predicted models predict only one-fourth of U.,S. incarceration and not all of crime.
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Does Environmental Pollution Promote China’s Crime Rate? A New Perspective Through Government Official Corruption
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used the generalized method of moments and a newly developed dynamic threshold panel model to examine the relationship between environmental pollution and the crime rate in 30 provinces in China for the period 2005 to 2016.
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Gauging the potential for social unrest
TL;DR: The authors assesses the adequacy of two measures, the polarization (P) index and the total relative deprivation (TRD) index, and proposes a tentative guide to selecting between these two measures.
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Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations.
Manuel Arellano,Stephen Bond +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator optimally exploits all the linear moment restrictions that follow from the assumption of no serial correlation in the errors, in an equation which contains individual effects, lagged dependent variables and no strictly exogenous variables.
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Inequality and Violent Crime
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the robustness and causality of the link between income inequality and violent crime across countries and examine the correlation between the Gini index and homicide and robbery rates within and between countries.
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Inequality and crime
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the relationship between inequality and crime using data from urban counties and find that inequality has no effect on property crime but a strong and robust impact on violent crime, with an elasticity above 0.5.
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Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Data on Robbery and Violent Theft
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the link between income inequality and violent property crime might be spurious, complementing a similar argument in prior analysis by the author on the determinants of homicide.
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Socioeconomic Conditions and Property Crime: A Comprehensive Review and Test of the Professional Literature
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the crime literature indicates varying and often opposing hypotheses of relationships between property crime and socioeconomic conditions such as poverty, business cycle conditions, demographics, criminal justice system actions, and family structure as mentioned in this paper.