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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... Journal , October 29 , 1996 , p . A18 , and " Reform Backlash in Latin America , " The Economist , November 30 - December 6 , 1996 . 2 The crime - reducing effect of income appeared robust to various regression specifications that ...
... Journal , October 29 , 1996 , p . A18 , and " Reform Backlash in Latin America , " The Economist , November 30 - December 6 , 1996 . 2 The crime - reducing effect of income appeared robust to various regression specifications that ...
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... Journal of the American Statistical Association 76 : 598-606 . Arellano , M. , and O. Bover . 1995. " Another Look at the Instrumental - Variable Estimation of Error - Components Models . " Journal of Econometrics 68 : 29-52 . Arellano ...
... Journal of the American Statistical Association 76 : 598-606 . Arellano , M. , and O. Bover . 1995. " Another Look at the Instrumental - Variable Estimation of Error - Components Models . " Journal of Econometrics 68 : 29-52 . Arellano ...
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... Journal of Political Economy 99 : 1272-1295 . Schmidt , Peter , and Ann D. Witte . 1984. An Economic Analy- sis of Crime and Justice : Theory , Methods , and Applications . New York : Academic Press , Inc. Tauchen , Helen , and Ann D ...
... Journal of Political Economy 99 : 1272-1295 . Schmidt , Peter , and Ann D. Witte . 1984. An Economic Analy- sis of Crime and Justice : Theory , Methods , and Applications . New York : Academic Press , Inc. Tauchen , Helen , and Ann D ...
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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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