Effect of crime on future crime: evidence from Mexico City

Abstract

This work is presented as follow; literature review provides information about how economist have studied crime, the patters of crime, and other research that uses the same approach to study crime. Then, the section 3 describes the data and how crime is distributed in time and space. The estimation section provides information about why I use this methodology and how I interpret the data. In the results, I show the estimations for the discontinuity. Later on, I present the robustness of this work by presenting a placebo test and after then, the main conclusion is presented.