Crime and growth convergence: Evidence from Mexico

Economics Letters

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-13

  Enamorado, Ted ^a   López Calva, Luis F ^b   Rodríguez Castelán, Carlos ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Crime; Drug related crimes; Growth; Spatial inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906489167     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.033     Document Type: Article

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