Gaviria, Alejandro; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andres - Banco de la Republica de Colombia
high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … rates in the future, when those children reach their peak crime ages, estimated to be between 18 to 26 years old in violent … cities of Colombia. The result is robust to various specifications, and to modeling the spatial autocorrelation of homicides. …