Determinants of Crime Rates in Latin America and the World: An Empirical AssessmentWorld Bank Publications, 1998 M01 1 - 44 pages A growing concern in most regions of the world is the heightened incidence of criminal and violent behavior, especially in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. This study uses a new data set of crime rates for a large sample of countries to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates. The authors describe a simple model of "incentives to commit crimes" by estimating several econometric models and utilizing empirical models to draw their conclusions. |
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... GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and criminal inertia ( accounted for by the inclusion of the lagged crime rate as an explanatory variable ) . The panel data techniques also consider country - specific effects , the joint endogeneity ...
... GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and criminal inertia ( accounted for by the inclusion of the lagged crime rate as an explanatory variable ) . The panel data techniques also consider country - specific effects , the joint endogeneity ...
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... GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and the presence of crimi- nal inertia ( accounted for by the inclusion of the lagged crime rate as an explanatory variable ) . Furthermore , the use of panel data techniques will allow us to account ...
... GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and the presence of crimi- nal inertia ( accounted for by the inclusion of the lagged crime rate as an explanatory variable ) . Furthermore , the use of panel data techniques will allow us to account ...
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... rates.10 In the regressions that are based on both cross - sectional and time - series data , we also used the rate of growth of GDP , calculated on the basis of figures expressed in 1987 prices ( in local currency ) . The degree of ...
... rates.10 In the regressions that are based on both cross - sectional and time - series data , we also used the rate of growth of GDP , calculated on the basis of figures expressed in 1987 prices ( in local currency ) . The degree of ...
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... GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and the presence of criminal inertia ( accounted for by the inclusion of lagged crime rate as an explanatory variable ) . Furthermore , the use of panel data will allow us to account for unob- served ...
... GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and the presence of criminal inertia ( accounted for by the inclusion of lagged crime rate as an explanatory variable ) . Furthermore , the use of panel data will allow us to account for unob- served ...
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... rate varies along the business cycle by including the five - year average GDP growth rate in the regression model ; this test could not be done using cross - sectional data averaged over a long period of time ( 1970–94 ) . Second , we ...
... rate varies along the business cycle by including the five - year average GDP growth rate in the regression model ; this test could not be done using cross - sectional data averaged over a long period of time ( 1970–94 ) . Second , we ...
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Asia Dummy average Caribbean coefficient Colombia commit a crime common religion conviction rate crime industry criminal activity criminal behavior criminal inertia cross-sectional regressions death penalty decision to commit determinants of crime deterrence effects Developing Countries DiCristina Drug Possession Crimes Drug Producers Dummy Dummy for Developing econometric Ehrlich empirical error term Europe and Central explanatory variables GDP growth rate Gini Coefficient Gini index GNP per Capita Guyana homicide and robbery incidence income inequality increase individual individual's instruments Intentional Homicide Rates joint endogeneity lagged crime rate lagged homicide rate largest number Latin America level of education Loayza Log of GNP measurement errors mis-measurement national crime rates Number of Observations p-value panel data police population Possession Crimes Rate proxy reported crime robbery rates Sargan Secondary Enrollment Rate serially correlated Shahid Javed Burki significant statistically strictly exogenous Sub-Saharan Africa tion under-reporting United Nations unobserved country-specific effects urbanization rate World Bank World Crime Surveys
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