Inequality, crime, and the long run legacy of slavery

This paper investigates the relationship between economic inequality and crime in Colombian municipalities. Following recent scholarly research that suggests that the legacy of slavery is largely manifest in persistent levels of economic inequality, we instrument economic inequality with a census-ba...

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Autores Principales: Buonanno, Paolo, Vargas, Juan F.
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22331
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.12.022