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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... error term , and the subscripts i and t represent country and time period , respectively . ( 8 ) We would like to relax the assumption that all the explanatory variables are strictly exoge- nous ( that is , that they are uncorrelated ...
... error term , and the subscripts i and t represent country and time period , respectively . ( 8 ) We would like to relax the assumption that all the explanatory variables are strictly exoge- nous ( that is , that they are uncorrelated ...
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... errors in the mea- surement of the crime rate ( which are imbedded in the error term e ) be correlated with some of the explanatory variables . This would be the case if , for instance , the degree of crime under- reporting decreases ...
... errors in the mea- surement of the crime rate ( which are imbedded in the error term e ) be correlated with some of the explanatory variables . This would be the case if , for instance , the degree of crime under- reporting decreases ...
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... error term e is not serially correlated . And sec- ond , although there may be correlation between the levels of the right - hand side variables and the country - specific effect , there is no correlation between the differences of ...
... error term e is not serially correlated . And sec- ond , although there may be correlation between the levels of the right - hand side variables and the country - specific effect , there is no correlation between the differences of ...
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... error serial - corre- lation tests ; therefore , its estimated coefficients cannot offer valid conclusions . The correlation of the error term in this regression signals that rele- vant variables with high over - time persistence were ...
... error serial - corre- lation tests ; therefore , its estimated coefficients cannot offer valid conclusions . The correlation of the error term in this regression signals that rele- vant variables with high over - time persistence were ...
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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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