Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico-a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over the … lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …

Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over …) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …

Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over …) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …