@techreport{DiTella2008Happiness,
abstract = {This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities (including drug trafficking and corruption) around the world. The paper then documents a negative (positive) correlation between measures of criminal activity and happiness and measures of positive (negative) emotions. The paper also studies the correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard work does not pay and that the government should increase the amount of redistribution to the poor.},
address = {Washington, DC},
author = {Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch and Hugo \\textasciitilde{}{N}opo},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C83; I39; K42; Y80; 330; Happiness; crime; beliefs; income distribution; Kriminalit\"{a}t; Emotion; Pers\"{o}nlichkeitspsychologie; Sch\"{a}tzung; Welt; Lateinamerika},
language = {eng},
number = {662},
publisher = {Inter-American Development Bank, Research Dep.},
title = {Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments},
type = {Working paper // Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51503},
year = {2008}
}
