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Oxford Economic Papers Advance Access published online on November 4, 2004
Oxford Economic Papers, doi:10.1093/oep/gpi005
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Income variables and the measures of gains from crime

John Chisholm 1 and Chongwoo Choe 2

1 School of Business, La Trobe University, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
2 Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia


  Abstract

There is ambiguity in the empirical studies of crime economics regarding various income variables used to proxy the expected net gains from crime. As a result, the empirical findings are often mixed or contradictory to one another. This note provides a theoretical argument that relates the net expected gains from crime to a measure of income inequality (the Gini coefficient) and the mean income of a society, thereby clarifying the ambiguity.

Keywords: JEL classification: D63; K00.
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