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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... positively ( but weakly ) associated with higher homicide rates . We address this puz- zle ( also found in other empirical studies ) when the regression results are presented . Drug produc- tion and drug possession are both ...
... positively ( but weakly ) associated with higher homicide rates . We address this puz- zle ( also found in other empirical studies ) when the regression results are presented . Drug produc- tion and drug possession are both ...
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... positive and significant rela- tionship between the average number of school years completed by the adult population ( over 25 years ) and particularly property crimes committed across the U.S. in 1960. Four possible explana- tions of ...
... positive and significant rela- tionship between the average number of school years completed by the adult population ( over 25 years ) and particularly property crimes committed across the U.S. in 1960. Four possible explana- tions of ...
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... positively related to both the intensity of the individual's criminal activity , and to the rate of enforcement at that point in time . The author stresses that this probability is a component of the rate used by potential offenders to ...
... positively related to both the intensity of the individual's criminal activity , and to the rate of enforcement at that point in time . The author stresses that this probability is a component of the rate used by potential offenders to ...
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... positive impact on ( at least some ) individuals ' propensity to commit a crime . The existence of profitable criminal activities ( DRUGS ) in some countries means that the expected loot from crime is larger in those countries than in ...
... positive impact on ( at least some ) individuals ' propensity to commit a crime . The existence of profitable criminal activities ( DRUGS ) in some countries means that the expected loot from crime is larger in those countries than in ...
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... positive coefficient , which is significant in all the regressions , reveal- ing that countries with more unequal distribu- tions of income tend to have higher crime rates than those with more egalitarian patterns of income distribution ...
... positive coefficient , which is significant in all the regressions , reveal- ing that countries with more unequal distribu- tions of income tend to have higher crime rates than those with more egalitarian patterns of income distribution ...
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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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