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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... Surveys , to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates . A simple model of the incentives to commit crimes is proposed , which explicitly considers pos- sible causes of the persistence of crime over time ( criminal ...
... Surveys , to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates . A simple model of the incentives to commit crimes is proposed , which explicitly considers pos- sible causes of the persistence of crime over time ( criminal ...
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... countries for the period 1970-94 , based on information from the United Nations World Crime Surveys . Then , we propose a simple model of the incentives faced by indi- LITERATURE REVIEW IN HIS NOBEL LECTURE , Becker ( 1993. 1 IV.
... countries for the period 1970-94 , based on information from the United Nations World Crime Surveys . Then , we propose a simple model of the incentives faced by indi- LITERATURE REVIEW IN HIS NOBEL LECTURE , Becker ( 1993. 1 IV.
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... survey , also affect the individual's decision by both reducing the costs of carrying out criminal activities ( lower c ) and impairing civic moral values ( lower m ) . These arguments strongly sug- gest the possibility of criminal ...
... survey , also affect the individual's decision by both reducing the costs of carrying out criminal activities ( lower c ) and impairing civic moral values ( lower m ) . These arguments strongly sug- gest the possibility of criminal ...
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... Surveys . The econometric analysis will focus on the determi- nants of “ intentional homicide , ” and robbery rates between 1970 and 1994.8 All crime rates are expressed as the number of reported crimes in each category per 100,000 ...
... Surveys . The econometric analysis will focus on the determi- nants of “ intentional homicide , ” and robbery rates between 1970 and 1994.8 All crime rates are expressed as the number of reported crimes in each category per 100,000 ...
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... Surveys . It is worth noting that this variable does not measure the extent of actual drug consumption in a given country , but only the fraction of that figure that is considered illegal in the country's legislation , and that has been ...
... Surveys . It is worth noting that this variable does not measure the extent of actual drug consumption in a given country , but only the fraction of that figure that is considered illegal in the country's legislation , and that has been ...
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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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