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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... errors ) expressed in this paper belong to the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank , its Board of Directors , or the countries which it represents . SUMMARY This study uses a new data set of crime II.
... errors ) expressed in this paper belong to the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank , its Board of Directors , or the countries which it represents . SUMMARY This study uses a new data set of crime II.
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... errors afflicting the crime data . The results show that increases in income inequality raise crime rates , deterrence effects are significant , crime tends to be counter - cyclical , and criminal inertia is significant even after ...
... errors afflicting the crime data . The results show that increases in income inequality raise crime rates , deterrence effects are significant , crime tends to be counter - cyclical , and criminal inertia is significant even after ...
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... errors afflicting the data of reported crimes . Some of the interesting results are the fol- lowing : Greater inequality is associated with higher intentional homicide and robbery rates , but the level of income per capita is not a ...
... errors afflicting the data of reported crimes . Some of the interesting results are the fol- lowing : Greater inequality is associated with higher intentional homicide and robbery rates , but the level of income per capita is not a ...
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... errors associated with the fact that crime tends to go unreported.5 The author finds that most of this negative relationship in the U.S. is due to deterrence effects , and not measurement error or incapacitation , for most types of ...
... errors associated with the fact that crime tends to go unreported.5 The author finds that most of this negative relationship in the U.S. is due to deterrence effects , and not measurement error or incapacitation , for most types of ...
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... errors in the reported crime rates . As dependent variables , we consider the incidence of two types of crime ... error is uncorrelated with the regressors . This condition , however , is very likely to be violated in the case of ...
... errors in the reported crime rates . As dependent variables , we consider the incidence of two types of crime ... error is uncorrelated with the regressors . This condition , however , is very likely to be violated in the case of ...
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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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