We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …

Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by … the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of … mandated political representation of the low castes to examine its effect on crime reports by these people. Mandated political …

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 …

This article analyses the effects of public expenditure on the Bolsa Família Program on the Brazilian crime rate. It …