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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... DATA A. National Crime Rates . V. B. Explanatory Variables EMPIRICAL IMPLEMENTATION . A. Cross - Sectional Regressions B. Panel Regressions VI . CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX : DATA DESCRIPTION AND SOURCES NOTES ........ REFERENCES TABLES V ...
... DATA A. National Crime Rates . V. B. Explanatory Variables EMPIRICAL IMPLEMENTATION . A. Cross - Sectional Regressions B. Panel Regressions VI . CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX : DATA DESCRIPTION AND SOURCES NOTES ........ REFERENCES TABLES V ...
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... panel data . The former focus on explanatory variables that do not change markedly over time , while the panel data techniques consider both the effect of the business cycle ( i.e. , GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and criminal ...
... panel data . The former focus on explanatory variables that do not change markedly over time , while the panel data techniques consider both the effect of the business cycle ( i.e. , GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and criminal ...
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... panel data . Working with panel data ( that is , pooled cross - country and time - series data ) allows us to consider both the effect of the business cycle ( i.e. , GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and the presence of crimi- nal ...
... panel data . Working with panel data ( that is , pooled cross - country and time - series data ) allows us to consider both the effect of the business cycle ( i.e. , GDP growth rate ) on the crime rate and the presence of crimi- nal ...
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... data used to calculate the national crime rates and the set of explanatory variables . A. NATIONAL CRIME RATES The ... panel data techniques used in the econometric exercises effectively eliminate some of the statistical infer- ence ...
... data used to calculate the national crime rates and the set of explanatory variables . A. NATIONAL CRIME RATES The ... panel data techniques used in the econometric exercises effectively eliminate some of the statistical infer- ence ...
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... REGRESSION EQUATION derived from our model is first run for simple cross - sections and then applied to panel data . On the one hand , cross - sectional regressions are illustrative because they emphasize cross - country variation of the ...
... REGRESSION EQUATION derived from our model is first run for simple cross - sections and then applied to panel data . On the one hand , cross - sectional regressions are illustrative because they emphasize cross - country variation of 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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