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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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The Aftermath of Financial Crises: A Look on Human and Social Wellbeing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of financial crisis on indicators of human and social wellbeing and found that the aftermaths of financial crises are characterized by increases in the growth rates of suicide rates, crime rates, and income inequality rates relative to their pre-crisis trajectories.
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Effects of Income Inequality on Population Health and Social Outcomes at the Regional Level in the EU
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between various measures of income inequality and variables describing population health and social outcomes at the regional level in the EU was analyzed and the results indicate that redistributive policies might be an effective measure to reduce social harm and improve population health.
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Does poverty lead to crime? Evidence from the United States of America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used time series data of USA over the period from 1965 to 2016, and applied autoregressive distributed lag approach to identify the effect of poverty on crime.
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Which indicator of income distribution explains crime better? Evidence from China
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors argued that income polarization rather than inequality indicators should be used instead of inequality indicators to explain crime, and they used the recently developed polarization index of Duclos, Esteban, and Ray (2004) to predict crime.
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A robust semi-parametric approach for measuring income inequality in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, a robust semi-parametric approach which involves combining the empirical distribution and Pareto model is applied for measuring the income distribution in Malaysia based on the survey data of household incomes for the years of 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2014.
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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.