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Is crime in Mexico a disamenity? Evidence from a hedonic valuation approach

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  • Hector Nuñez

    (Division of Economics, CIDE)

  • Dusan Paredes

    (Division of Economics, Universidad Católica del Norte)

  • Rafael Garduño Rivera

    (Division of Economics, CIDE)

Abstract

Since Roback (1982)’s seminal work, the literature has evaluated the role of the amenities to equilibrate the regional differentials of nominal wages and prices. While these studies generally find evidence for traditional amenities and disamenities in developed countries, it still exists a scarce exploration on how those characteristics assessed, like violence, affect the equilibrium in less developed countries. In this paper, we explore violence as amenity or disamenity for the case of Mexico as a particular and unique natural experiment. We use the hedonic wage and rent theory proposed by Roback using data from the Mexican Household Income and Expenditure Survey, along with other information at municipal and state level. For our particular hypothesis, we find evidence to support that inhabitants in traditional drug trafficking states could consider drug-related crime as an amenity.

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  • Hector Nuñez & Dusan Paredes & Rafael Garduño Rivera, 2015. "Is crime in Mexico a disamenity? Evidence from a hedonic valuation approach," Working Papers DTE 594, CIDE, División de Economía.
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    Keywords

    Hedonic Valuation; Wages; Rents; Amenities; Crime; Mexico.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D5 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
    • R2 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis

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