Borradores de Economia
Número:
594
Publicado:
Clasificación JEL:
K40, K42, R21, J13, C21
Palabras clave:
Crime, Illegal Behavior, Law Enforcement, Adolescent Fertility
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Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Jorge Florez-Acosta
Luis Armando Galvis-Aponte, Adriana Marcela Rivera-Zárate
Diego Fernando Cuesta-Mora, Fredy Alejandro Gamboa-Estrada, Camilo Eduardo Sánchez-Quinto
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