Income Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
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- Enamorado, Ted & López-Calva, Luis F. & Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos & Winkler, Hernán, 2016. "Income inequality and violent crime: Evidence from Mexico's drug war," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 128-143.
- Enamorado, Ted & Lopez-Calva , Luis-Felipe & Rodriguez-Castelan, Carlos & Winkler, Hernan, 2014. "Income inequality and violent crime : evidence from Mexico's drug war," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6935, The World Bank.
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- C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2015-10-04 (Development)
- NEP-LTV-2015-10-04 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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