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 …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income … growth can be unbundled, and the contributions of income components to overall pro-poorness identified. An application to …

s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored …. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13?17 over an untreated baseline of $75 …

dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income …

The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad … manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root … causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. The authors conclude by stressing that …

mandatory participation in military service and crime. The authors exploit the random assignment through a draft lottery of …

possible channels through which the Temporary Income Support Program can affect crime. Since the program is associated with … as the incidence of violence. Between 2009 and 2014, El Salvador implemented the Temporary Income Support Program, which … aimed to guarantee a temporary minimum level of income to extremely poor urban families for six months, as well as provide …

police force and crime experienced by firms. Using survey data for about 12,000 firms in a cross-section of 27 developing … countries, the study finds that increasing the size of the police force is negatively associated with crime experienced by firms …

organized crime and the international financial crisis of 2008-09 …