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T1 Cities and Violence: An Empirical Analysis of the Case of Costa Rica
T2 Ciudades y Violencia: Un Análisis Empírico del Caso de Costa Rica
A1 Gimenez, Gregorio
A1 Tkacheva, Liubov
A1 Svitková, Katarína
A1 Barrado Vicente, Beatriz
A2 Economia Aplicada
K1 Cultura
K1 Educación
K1 Política
K1 Violence
K1 Urban
K1 Cities
K1 Latin America
K1 Costa Rica
AB [EN] This article focuses on the effect of urbanization on violent crime – particularly homicide in Costa Rica. Although violence is a major problem throughout Latin America, few empirical studies carried out in the area use high-quality socioeconomic and crime databases with a high level of geographical disaggregation. In this article, we employ data from all 473 districts of Costa Rica between 2010 and 2013. We develop a model which takes into account endogeneity problems and uses contrasts of marginal linear predictions. We conclude that the degree of urban concentration plays a key role in explaining homicide rates, other things being equal. This effect is progressive: the greater the urban concentration, the greater the increase in homicide rates. This causal relationship is not observed in offenses other than homicide.
PB Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Estudos Sociais e  Políticos (IESP)
SN 0011-5258
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18323
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18323
NO Giménez, G., Tkacheva, L., Svitková, K., y Barrado, B. (2021). Cities and violence: an empirical analysis of the case of costa rica. Dados, 64(1), 1- 35. https://doi.org/10.1590/DADOS.2021.64.1.225
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 21-may-2024