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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Luis E. Arango, Luis E. Arango, Luz Adriana Flórez, Carlos Esteban Posada
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Olga Lucia Acosta Navarro, Andrés Felipe Chitán-Caes, Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo, Jorge Leonardo Rodríguez Arenas
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