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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268117303724 by Paolo Buonanno 3/19 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268117303724 by Paolo Buonanno 3/19 ScienceDirect] | ||
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-based measure of the proportion of slaves in each municipality before the abolition of slavery in the 19 century. | 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-based measure of the proportion of slaves in each municipality before the abolition of slavery in the 19 century. | ||
=====Activity-adjusted crime rates show that public safety worsened in 2020===== | |||
[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208598119 by Maxim Massenkoff 7/11/22 PNAS] | |||
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought massive disruptions to economic and social life, including an unprecedented spike in homicides. Overall crime, however, was down. We resolve this apparent paradox by showing that after accounting for the fact that people were spending more time indoors in 2020, the risk of victimization in public actually increased. These recent changes in crime and activity provide a stark illustration of how conventional crime rates can fail to capture changes in public safety. | |||
