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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... difference between the average income of the second lowest quartile and the highest quartile of households tended to increase city arrest and court - appearance rates , but the coeffi- cient was often small in magnitude , and became ...
... difference between the average income of the second lowest quartile and the highest quartile of households tended to increase city arrest and court - appearance rates , but the coeffi- cient was often small in magnitude , and became ...
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... difference between the income from criminal and legal activities ( higher l - w ) . A rise in inequality may also have a crime- inducing effect by reducing the individual's moral threshold ( lower m ) through what we could call an ...
... difference between the income from criminal and legal activities ( higher l - w ) . A rise in inequality may also have a crime- inducing effect by reducing the individual's moral threshold ( lower m ) through what we could call an ...
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... differences ) with appropriate moment conditions applied to the regression in levels . Before explain- ing the statistical advantages of the estimator that combines differences and levels regressions over the simple difference estimator ...
... differences ) with appropriate moment conditions applied to the regression in levels . Before explain- ing the statistical advantages of the estimator that combines differences and levels regressions over the simple difference estimator ...
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... difference estima- tor . Arellano and Bover ( 1995 ) present an estima- tor that combines , in a system , the regression in differences with the regression in levels . The instruments for the regression in differences are the lagged ...
... difference estima- tor . Arellano and Bover ( 1995 ) present an estima- tor that combines , in a system , the regression in differences with the regression in levels . The instruments for the regression in differences are the lagged ...
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... differences , all first differences are assumed to be strictly exoge- nous , except for the lagged first difference of the crime rate , which is instrumented with the third lag of the crime rate ( in level ) . Standard errors are ...
... differences , all first differences are assumed to be strictly exoge- nous , except for the lagged first difference of the crime rate , which is instrumented with the third lag of the crime rate ( in level ) . Standard errors are ...
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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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