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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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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.