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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... included in this publication and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any consequence of their use . The boundaries , colors , denomina- tions , and other information shown on any map in this volume do not imply on the part of the ...
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... included therein . This section briefly describes the data used to calculate the national crime rates and the set of explanatory variables . A. NATIONAL CRIME RATES The empirical implementation of the theoretical model proposed above ...
... included therein . This section briefly describes the data used to calculate the national crime rates and the set of explanatory variables . A. NATIONAL CRIME RATES The empirical implementation of the theoretical model proposed above ...
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... included subjec- tive indices of the quality of the state apparatus instead of the police and conviction rates . Neither the index of rule of law nor the index of absence of corruption turned out to be significant . The lack of ...
... included subjec- tive indices of the quality of the state apparatus instead of the police and conviction rates . Neither the index of rule of law nor the index of absence of corruption turned out to be significant . The lack of ...
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... included in subsequent regressions , both the hypothesis of lack of resid- ual serial correlation and the hypothesis of no correlation between the error term and the instruments ( Sargan test ) cannot be rejected , and , Table 4 ...
... included in subsequent regressions , both the hypothesis of lack of resid- ual serial correlation and the hypothesis of no correlation between the error term and the instruments ( Sargan test ) cannot be rejected , and , Table 4 ...
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... included in these surveys represent the official statistics of member countries of the United Nations . They have been compiled by the United Nations on the basis of question- naires distributed to member countries , as well as ...
... included in these surveys represent the official statistics of member countries of the United Nations . They have been compiled by the United Nations on the basis of question- naires distributed to member countries , as well as ...
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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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