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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 revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime
TL;DR: This article decompose county-level income inequality into its within-and across-tract components and examine the extent to which county level crime rates are influenced by local inequality and economic segregation, finding that the previously reported positive correlation between violent crime and economic inequality is largely driven by economic segregation across neighborhoods instead of within-neighborhood inequality.
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Income inequality and pecuniary crimes
TL;DR: This paper verified the relationship between income inequality and pecuniary crimes and found that the elasticity of crimes relative to inequality is 1.46, corroborating previous literature, and that other factors important to decrease criminality are expanding job opportunities and a more efficient legal system.
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Income Inequality and Crime: A Review and Explanation of the Time - series Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the time-series evidence of the effects of changing income inequality on crime for a number of countries and types of crime is presented. But the analysis indicated that property crime increases with rising income inequality and specific measures of violent crime, such as homicide and robbery, also display sensitivity to income inequality over time.
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Spatial correlation between homicide rates and inequality: Evidence from urban neighborhoods☆
Tatiane Almeida de Menezes,Tatiane Almeida de Menezes,Raul Silveira-Neto,Raul Silveira-Neto,Circe Monteiro,Circe Monteiro,José Luiz Ratton,José Luiz Ratton +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of the spatial dependence on homicide rates within large urban center neighborhoods was captured by calculating the total, direct, and indirect effects of neighborhood characteristics on homicides, and the results showed that areas with low homicides rates are surrounded by neighborhoods with high murder rates.
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More inequality, more crime? A panel cointegration analysis for the United States
Pandej Chintrakarn,Dierk Herzer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed state-level panel data to examine the effect of income inequality on crime in the United States and found that a significant negative effect of inequality was found on crime.
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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.