living standards. We use available data for Colombia between 1905 and 2005 to test the main predictions of the model with …

homicide rates. We find that neighborhoods with high adolescent fertility rates, and that have low secondary enrollment and … high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … cities of Colombia. The result is robust to various specifications, and to modeling the spatial autocorrelation of homicides. …

order to preventaverage homicide rates from increasing in one standard deviation. Households in stratum 5pay up to 2.4% of … their house values to prevent homicide rates from increasing. The resultsindicate the willingness to pay for security by …

We assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual´s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and … of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on …