The migration literature suggests that higher inequality may influence the type of "selfselected" migrants that leave a coun- try [Borjas (1987), Chiquiar and Hanson (2002), Liebig and Souza-Poza (2004)]This
paper is a first attempt to link the two literatures by arguing that inequality has a positive effect on the kidnap victimization probability a household faces, and that this risk increases the likelihood of