Assessing the link between adolescent fertility and urban crime

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Borradores de Economía; No. 594

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2010-03-20

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2010-03-20

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

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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

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J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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Crime , Illegal behavior , Law enforcement , Adolescent fertility , Spatial econometrics

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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5611
 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/5611
 https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/594.html
 https://doi.org/10.32468/be.594

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