Great write up, thank you for sharing this. I had seen arguments that the US murder rate looks a lot like other Western countries once one controls for race, but this does a very good job of highlighting just what is going on there.
Great write up, thank you for sharing this. I had seen arguments that the US murder rate looks a lot like other Western countries once one controls for race, but this does a very good job of highlighting just what is going on there.
I actually have a different post tackling exactly that question, though it is one of my posts for paid subscribers. The short answer is that, while demographics accounts for most of the homicide rate difference between the United States and other comparably developed Western nations, a nontrivial difference remains after such controls.
Great write up, thank you for sharing this. I had seen arguments that the US murder rate looks a lot like other Western countries once one controls for race, but this does a very good job of highlighting just what is going on there.
I actually have a different post tackling exactly that question, though it is one of my posts for paid subscribers. The short answer is that, while demographics accounts for most of the homicide rate difference between the United States and other comparably developed Western nations, a nontrivial difference remains after such controls.
https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/p/demographics-and-american-homicides
Excellent, thank you!