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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... factors thatmake some countries have higher crime rates than others over time . At least since the publication of Becker ( 1968 ) , the economics profession has analyzed the determinants of criminal behavior from theoreti- cal and ...
... factors thatmake some countries have higher crime rates than others over time . At least since the publication of Becker ( 1968 ) , the economics profession has analyzed the determinants of criminal behavior from theoreti- cal and ...
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... factor ; the income level of poten- tial victims also matters . The higher the level of income of potential victims , the higher the incentive to commit crimes , especially crimes against property . Thus , according to Fleisher ( 1966 ...
... factor ; the income level of poten- tial victims also matters . The higher the level of income of potential victims , the higher the incentive to commit crimes , especially crimes against property . Thus , according to Fleisher ( 1966 ...
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... factor related to the effect of economic conditions on crime is the level of education of the population , which can ... factors have a negative effect on crime rates - see Ehrlich ( 1973 , 545 , and 1996 , 55 ) . Analysts often make a ...
... factor related to the effect of economic conditions on crime is the level of education of the population , which can ... factors have a negative effect on crime rates - see Ehrlich ( 1973 , 545 , and 1996 , 55 ) . Analysts often make a ...
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... factors that may explain how crime is propagated over time and within communities . In the following section we attempt to organize some of the ideas addressed in the literature in a simple framework . characteristics with the elements ...
... factors that may explain how crime is propagated over time and within communities . In the following section we attempt to organize some of the ideas addressed in the literature in a simple framework . characteristics with the elements ...
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... factors that may affect an individual's propensity to commit crimes ( other ) such as cultural characteristics ( reli- gion and colonial heritage , for example ) , age and sex ( young males are said to be more violent prone than the ...
... factors that may affect an individual's propensity to commit crimes ( other ) such as cultural characteristics ( reli- gion and colonial heritage , for example ) , age and sex ( young males are said to be more violent prone than the ...
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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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