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Top income shares and crime

Brzezinski, Michal

Top income shares and crime created by Michał Brzeziński - Applied economics letters Volume 20, number 3 .

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.

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Inequality--Panel data--Top income shares

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