Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Data on Robbery and Violent Theft

By Eric Neumayer. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Income inequality and violent crime : evidence from Mexico's drug war (2014, unknown): “Neumayer (2005) directly calls into question the results of Fajnzylber, Lederman, and Loayza (2002b), arguing that, by increasing the sample size of countries, inequality—measured by the Gini coefficient—is no longer statistically significant in predicting violent crime.6 Moreover, Pridemore (2011)…”
• Researching the Urban Dilemma: Urbanization, Poverty and Violence (2012, background): “That said, the extent to which urban violence correlates with poverty or inequality is debated (Fainzylber et al. 2002; Moser 2004; Neumayer 2005).”