The crime kuznets curve

Paolo Buonanno, Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Vargas

No 11083, Documentos de Trabajo from Universidad del Rosario

Abstract: Abstract: We document the existence of a Crime Kuznets Curve in US states since the 1970s. As income levels have risen, crime has followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, rst increasing and then dropping. The Crime Kuznets Curve is not explained by income inequality. In fact, we show that during the sample period inequality has risen monotonically with income, ruling out the traditional Kuznets Curve. Our nding is robust to adding a large set of controls that are used in the literature to explain the incidence of crime, as well as to controlling for state and year xed e ects. The Curve is also revealed in nonparametric speci cations. The Crime Kuznets Curve exists for property crime and for some categories of violent crime.

Keywords: Crime Kuznets Curve; Income inequality; Non-parametric Kernel anal-ysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2014-04-01
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