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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... measurement 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 ...
... measurement 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 ...
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... measurement 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 ...
... measurement 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 ...
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... measured by the median income of the families in a given community . The author assumed that , " the mean legitimate oppor- tunities available to potential offenders , " may be approximated by , " the mean income level of those below ...
... measured by the median income of the families in a given community . The author assumed that , " the mean legitimate oppor- tunities available to potential offenders , " may be approximated by , " the mean income level of those below ...
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... measurement 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 ...
... measurement 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 ...
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... measurement of the dependent variable does not lead to esti- mation biases when the measurement error is uncorrelated with the regressors . This condition , however , is very likely to be violated in the case of crime under - reporting ...
... measurement of the dependent variable does not lead to esti- mation biases when the measurement error is uncorrelated with the regressors . This condition , however , is very likely to be violated in the case of crime under - reporting ...
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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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