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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... country - specific effects , the joint endogeneity of some of the explanatory variables , and the existence of some types of measurement errors afflicting the crime data . The results show that increases in income inequality raise crime ...
... country - specific effects , the joint endogeneity of some of the explanatory variables , and the existence of some types of measurement errors afflicting the crime data . The results show that increases in income inequality raise crime ...
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... country and time - series data ) allows us to consider both the effect of ... specific effects , for the likely joint endogeneity of some of the ... effects are also shown to be significant . Contrary to our expectations , national ...
... country and time - series data ) allows us to consider both the effect of ... specific effects , for the likely joint endogeneity of some of the ... effects are also shown to be significant . Contrary to our expectations , national ...
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... country , and the popu- lation density where the individual lives ( urban ... effects summarized in Box 1 , and substituting them into equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ... specific effect . Table 1. Summary Statistics for Crime Variables No. of Obs.
... country , and the popu- lation density where the individual lives ( urban ... effects summarized in Box 1 , and substituting them into equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ... specific effect . Table 1. Summary Statistics for Crime Variables No. of Obs.
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... country - specific effects , for the likely joint endogeneity of some of the explanatory vari- ables , and for some types of measurement errors in the reported crime rates . As dependent variables , we consider the incidence of two ...
... country - specific effects , for the likely joint endogeneity of some of the explanatory vari- ables , and for some types of measurement errors in the reported crime rates . As dependent variables , we consider the incidence of two ...
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... country - specific effects . Our preferred panel estimation strategy fol- lows the Generalized Method of Moments ( GMM ) estimator proposed by Chamberlain ( 1984 ) , Holtz - Eakin , Newey and Rosen ( 1988 ) , Arellano and Bond ( 1991 ) ...
... country - specific effects . Our preferred panel estimation strategy fol- lows the Generalized Method of Moments ( GMM ) estimator proposed by Chamberlain ( 1984 ) , Holtz - Eakin , Newey and Rosen ( 1988 ) , Arellano and Bond ( 1991 ) ...
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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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