Top income shares and crime

Michał Brzeziński

Applied Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 20, issue 4, 309-315

Abstract: This article estimates the relationship between income inequality approximated by the top 10% and 1% income shares derived from income tax return data and nine crime categories for the US states between 1979 and 2003. We fail to find a positive relationship between inequality and crime, except for the case of the top 10% share and motor vehicle theft.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.697117

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