The relationship between income inequality and crime has attracted the interest of many researchers, but little … convincing evidence exists on the causal effect of inequality on crime in developing countries. This paper estimates this effect … in a unique context: Mexico's Drug War. The analysis takes advantage of a unique data set containing inequality and crime …

Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over …) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …