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The goal of this paper is to show that household-level financial distress (FD) varies greatly, meaning there is unequal exposure to macroeconomic risk, and that FD can increase macroeconomic vulnerability. To do this, we first establish three facts: (i) regions in the U.S. vary significantly in...
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effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … proxy for poverty, we show that the effect is less pronounced for provinces with a large agricultural sector. As Mehlum et …
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persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent countries with extensive social safety nets …
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parents with young children may increase the intergenerational persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent …
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The study examines the relationship between growth-inequality-poverty (GIP) triangle and crime rate under the premises … that there is (i) no/flat relationship between per capita income and crime rate; (ii) U-shaped relationship between poverty … decrease crime rate. Crime rate substantially increases income inequality while health expenditures decrease poverty headcount …
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persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent countries with extensive social safety nets. …
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