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Does income inequality lead to more crime? A comparison of cross-sectional and time-series analyses of United States counties

2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 96; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.econlet.2007.01.012

1873-7374

Jesse Brush,

Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

This paper estimates the effect of income inequality on crime in United States counties using both cross-sectional and first-differenced approaches. Income inequality is positively associated with crime rates in the cross section analysis, but negatively associated with crime rates in the time-series analysis.