...Mauricio Rivera Celestino; Rodrigo Salazar-Elena; Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio Crime and income inequality rank among the most important challenges in Latin America, but the authors know little about how they jointly shape election outcomes. The authors develop a formal model in which crime conditions...

...Masataka Harada; Daniel M. Smith We examine whether and how intergovernmental fiscal transfers reduce crime, an important but understudied aspect of distributive politics. Estimating the causal effect of redistribution on crime is complicated by the problem of simultaneity: transfers may...