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Published · transcript-backedChris Blattman: belief
14 Mar 2018 Conversations with Tyler Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What's Interesting
“I don’t totally accept this as a stylized fact. I think there are other aspects of .”
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- Chris Blattman
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- belief
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- 14 Mar 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But murder rates are fairly high in this hemisphere. Murder rates are fairly high. First, I’m a little skeptical of that. I don’t totally accept this as a stylized fact. I think there are other aspects of . . . probably the actual levels of violence in society are mostly going on in the home. We’re talking about a very specific subset of violence that has more to do with rogues deciding that they can extract something from a stranger. So my instinct is to say that has a lot to do with policing. It has a lot to do with the level of policing and the concentration and the dissuasion from a very specific kind of violence. It still seems odd, there’s this commonality across so many countries.…
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