Absolute Inequality and Violent Property Crime
| dc.contributor.author | Goda, Thomas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Torres, Alejandro | |
| dc.contributor.eafitauthor | tgoda@eafit.edu.co | |
| dc.contributor.eafitauthor | atorres7@eafit.edu.co | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Medellín de: Lat: 06 15 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 6.2500 decimal degrees Long: 075 36 00 W degrees minutes Long: -75.6000 decimal degrees | eng |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-22T20:33:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-22T20:33:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-08-22 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Rational choice models argue that income inequality leads to a higher expected utility of crime and thus generates incentives to engage in illegal activities. Yet, the results of empirical studies do not provide strong support for this theory; in fact, Neumayer provides apparently strong evidence that income inequality is not a significant determinant of violent property crime rates when a representative sample is used and country specific fixed effects are controlled for. An important limitation of this and other empirical studies on the subject is that they only consider proportional income differences, even though in rational choice models absolute difference in legal and illegal incomes determine the expected utility of crime. Using the same methodology and data as Neumayer, but using absolute inequality measures rather than proportional ones, this paper finds that absolute income inequality is a statistically significant determinant of robbery and violent theft rates. This result is robust to changes in sample size and to different absolute inequality measures, which not only implies that inequality is an important correlate of violent property crime rates but also suggests that absolute measures are preferable when the impact of inequality on property crime is studied. | eng |
| dc.identifier.jel | D31 | |
| dc.identifier.jel | D63 | |
| dc.identifier.jel | K42 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10784/9078 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
| dc.publisher | Universidad EAFIT | spa |
| dc.publisher.department | Escuela de Economía y Finanzas | spa |
| dc.rights.accessrights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | eng |
| dc.rights.local | Acceso abierto | spa |
| dc.subject.keyword | Violent Crime | eng |
| dc.subject.keyword | Property Crime | eng |
| dc.subject.keyword | Income Inequality | eng |
| dc.subject.keyword | Absolute Inequality | eng |
| dc.title | Absolute Inequality and Violent Property Crime | eng |
| dc.type | workingPaper | eng |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper | eng |
| dc.type.hasVersion | draft | eng |
| dc.type.local | Documento de trabajo de investigación | spa |
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