99781 20230519145401.0 doi 10.1590/dados.2021.64.1.225 sideral 122789 ART-2021-122789 eng Gimenez, G Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3702-4017 Cities and Violence: An Empirical Analysis of the Case of Costa Rica 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article focuses on the effect of urbanization on violent crime - particularly homicide in Costa Rica. Although violence is a major problem throughout Latin America, few empirical studies carried out in the area use high-quality socioeconomic and crime databases with a high level of geographical disaggregation. In this article, we employ data from all 473 districts of Costa Rica between 2010 and 2013. We develop a model which takes into account endogeneity problems and uses contrasts of marginal linear predictions. We conclude that the degree of urban concentration plays a key role in explaining homicide rates, other things being equal. This effect is progressive: the greater the urban concentration, the greater the increase in homicide rates. This causal relationship is not observed in offenses other than homicide. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.545 2021 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY 99 / 112 = 0.884 2021 Q4 T3 0.212 2021 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 2021 Q3 0.6 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Tkacheva, L Svitkova, K Barrado, B (orcid)0000-0003-2033-801X 4014 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Economía Aplicada 64, 1 (2021), [35 pp] Dados DADOS-REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS 0011-5258 1155340 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/99781/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1386607 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/99781/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:99781 articulos driver 2023-05-18-13:40:41 ARTICLE