Does income inequality lead to more crime? A comparison of cross-sectional and time-series analyses of United States counties

Economics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 264-268

  Brush, Jesse ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counties; Crime; Income inequality; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249994031     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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