The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin …, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and … inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the …

Using a macro panel of 31 European countries, this paper explores the hypothesis that cross-country differences in the … by countries' political, institutional and legal characteristics and particularly by the level of perceived corruption in … notwithstanding, results indicate that corruption and poor institutional quality significantly interact with economic cofactors and …

the consumption of groups of individuals that share similar time-invariant characteristics, consistent with the pseudo-panel … methodology. When the panel data are available, we track the consumption of each individual in order to generate the non …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … data. We find robust evidence that an increase in corruption increases income inequality and poverty. -- Corruption … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … data. We find robust evidence that an increase in corruption increases income inequality and poverty … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … corruption. An important implication of these results is that policies that reduce corruption will also lower income inequality …

the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …

by high inequality. But, income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed … inequality that we observe, we must first determine why the distribution of income generating assets is so unequal. If one takes …