Gale, Lewis R.; Heath, Will Carrington; Ressler, Rand W. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 28 (2002) 2, pp. 203-216
random- and fixed-effects approaches. While there are limitations in the use of bias-motivation crime data in empirical … analysis, we find statistical significance between the incidence of hate crime and several economic and socioeconomic variables …. Most notably, among non-South states, a higher hate crime rate is associated with higher abuse rates, higher unemployment …