Assessing the Link between Adolescent Fertility and Urban Crime

Alejandro Gaviria; Carlos Alberto Medina-Durango; Jorge Andrés Tamayo-Castaño

Borradores de Economia

Number:

594

Published:

Monday, 1 March 2010

Classification JEL:

K40, K42, R21, J13, C21

Keywords:

Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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