Assessing the Link between Adolescent Fertility and Urban Crime

We use data of neighborhoods of Bogotá to assess the causal relation between their adolescent fertility and their homicide rates. We find that neighborhoods with high adolescent fertility rates, and that have low secondary enrollment and high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen moth...

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Authors: Alejandro Gaviria (Author) ; Jorge Andres Tamayo (Author) ; Carlos Medina (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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