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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... coefficients which were originally based on expenditure information were adjusted to ensure their comparability with the coefficients based on income data.11 Two educational variables were used , as measures of the stock and the flow of ...
... coefficients which were originally based on expenditure information were adjusted to ensure their comparability with the coefficients based on income data.11 Two educational variables were used , as measures of the stock and the flow of ...
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... coefficient , which is significant in all the regressions , reveal- ing that countries with more unequal distribu- tions of income tend to have higher crime rates than those with more egalitarian patterns of income distribution . In ...
... coefficient , which is significant in all the regressions , reveal- ing that countries with more unequal distribu- tions of income tend to have higher crime rates than those with more egalitarian patterns of income distribution . In ...
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... coefficient in 12 out of the 15 regressions that include this variable , but the coef- ficient is not significant in any specification . In equation ( 3 ) we use the secondary enrollment rate ( or the flow of human capital ) instead of ...
... coefficient in 12 out of the 15 regressions that include this variable , but the coef- ficient is not significant in any specification . In equation ( 3 ) we use the secondary enrollment rate ( or the flow of human capital ) instead of ...
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... coefficient is not significant . The coeffi- cients corresponding to the conviction rate are statistically different from zero , even after includ- ing the variable that controls for the existence of the death penalty , which may ...
... coefficient is not significant . The coeffi- cients corresponding to the conviction rate are statistically different from zero , even after includ- ing the variable that controls for the existence of the death penalty , which may ...
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... coefficients on these subjective indices of the rule of law and absence of corruption in the bureaucracy may be due ... coefficient of the secondary enrollment rate is also positive in regression ( 3 ) , and is actually more significant ...
... coefficients on these subjective indices of the rule of law and absence of corruption in the bureaucracy may be due ... coefficient of the secondary enrollment rate is also positive in regression ( 3 ) , and is actually more significant ...
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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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