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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... Explanatory Variables EMPIRICAL IMPLEMENTATION . A. Cross - Sectional Regressions B. Panel Regressions VI . CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX : DATA DESCRIPTION AND SOURCES NOTES ........ REFERENCES TABLES V ..vii .3 .11 .15 .17 .18 .23 .31 .33 ..41 ...
... Explanatory Variables EMPIRICAL IMPLEMENTATION . A. Cross - Sectional Regressions B. Panel Regressions VI . CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX : DATA DESCRIPTION AND SOURCES NOTES ........ REFERENCES TABLES V ..vii .3 .11 .15 .17 .18 .23 .31 .33 ..41 ...
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... explanatory variable ) . The panel data techniques also consider 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 ...
... explanatory variable ) . The panel data techniques also consider 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 ...
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... explanatory variable ) . Furthermore , the use of panel data techniques will allow us to account for unobserved country- specific effects , for the likely joint endogeneity of some of the explanatory variables , and for the existence of ...
... explanatory variable ) . Furthermore , the use of panel data techniques will allow us to account for unobserved country- specific effects , for the likely joint endogeneity of some of the explanatory variables , and for the existence of ...
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... explanatory variables . A. NATIONAL CRIME RATES The empirical implementation of the theoretical model proposed above will rely on crime rates , which were based on the number of crimes reported by national justice ministries to the ...
... explanatory variables . A. NATIONAL CRIME RATES The empirical implementation of the theoretical model proposed above will rely on crime rates , which were based on the number of crimes reported by national justice ministries to the ...
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... EXPLANATORY VARIABLES Following the simple model presented in the previous section , we have selected a set of explanatory variables that proxy for the main economic determinants of crime rates , as well as for some of the non ...
... EXPLANATORY VARIABLES Following the simple model presented in the previous section , we have selected a set of explanatory variables that proxy for the main economic determinants of crime rates , as well as for some of the non ...
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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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