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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... crimes is proposed , which explicitly considers pos- sible causes of the persistence of crime over time ( criminal inertia ) . Several econometric models are estimated , attempting to capture the determinants of crime rates across ...
... crimes is proposed , which explicitly considers pos- sible causes of the persistence of crime over time ( criminal inertia ) . Several econometric models are estimated , attempting to capture the determinants of crime rates across ...
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... crime over time ( criminal inertia ) . The empirical implemen- tation of the model estimates several econometric models attempting to capture the determinants of crime rates across countries and over time . The empirical models are ...
... crime over time ( criminal inertia ) . The empirical implemen- tation of the model estimates several econometric models attempting to capture the determinants of crime rates across countries and over time . The empirical models are ...
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... criminal inertia that may result from social interactions , or delayed responses to surges in criminal activity on the part of police and judi- cial systems . The theoretical and empirical literature has considered the role of three ...
... criminal inertia that may result from social interactions , or delayed responses to surges in criminal activity on the part of police and judi- cial systems . The theoretical and empirical literature has considered the role of three ...
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... crime rates across communities need not converge . For the pur- poses of this paper , the implication of systemic and local interactions is that countries may expe- rience criminal inertia over time . In sum , the economics literature on ...
... crime rates across communities need not converge . For the pur- poses of this paper , the implication of systemic and local interactions is that countries may expe- rience criminal inertia over time . In sum , the economics literature on ...
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... criminal activities ( lower c ) and impairing civic moral values ( lower m ) . These arguments strongly sug- gest the possibility of criminal inertia , that is , present crime incidence explained to some extent by its past incidence ...
... criminal activities ( lower c ) and impairing civic moral values ( lower m ) . These arguments strongly sug- gest the possibility of criminal inertia , that is , present crime incidence explained to some extent by its past incidence ...
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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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