That poverty and mental health are negatively associated in developing countries is well known among epidemiologists … effect of poverty on mental health by exploiting a natural experiment induced by weather variability across 440 districts in … Indonesia (N = 577,548). Precipitation anomaly in two climatological seasons is used as an instrument for poverty status, which …

This study examines whether income inequality and poverty are determinants of crime rates across 34 provinces in … Indonesia. Three indicators of income inequality and four poverty measures are tested to examine whether the dimension and … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach. The findings indicate that higher income levels and wider income inequality are …

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some … not only is there a negative and statistically significant relationship between inequality and crime in Brazil, and that … inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement error in inequality by using the relationship between migration and …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory …