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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... sample of countries for the period 1970-1994 , based on information from the United Nations World Crime Surveys , to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates . A simple model of the incentives to commit crimes is ...
... sample of countries for the period 1970-1994 , based on information from the United Nations World Crime Surveys , to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates . A simple model of the incentives to commit crimes is ...
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... sample of countries for the period 1970-94 , based on information from the United Nations World Crime Surveys . Then , we propose a simple model of the incentives faced by indi- LITERATURE REVIEW IN HIS NOBEL LECTURE , Becker ( 1993. 1 IV.
... sample of countries for the period 1970-94 , based on information from the United Nations World Crime Surveys . Then , we propose a simple model of the incentives faced by indi- LITERATURE REVIEW IN HIS NOBEL LECTURE , Becker ( 1993. 1 IV.
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... sample of countries , while separating groups of countries by income levels and regions . We use the median rate to describe the evolution of homicide rates because this measure is less sensitive to the influence of outliers than the ...
... sample of countries , while separating groups of countries by income levels and regions . We use the median rate to describe the evolution of homicide rates because this measure is less sensitive to the influence of outliers than the ...
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... sample ) produce the loss of a large amount of observations in our panel , which is of rather limited coverage to start with . Considering the model without country - specific effects increases the number of observations at the cost of ...
... sample ) produce the loss of a large amount of observations in our panel , which is of rather limited coverage to start with . Considering the model without country - specific effects increases the number of observations at the cost of ...
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... sample performance of the difference estimator . As the variables ' persistence increases , the asymptotic variance of the coefficients obtained with the difference estimator rises ( that is , the asymptotic precision of this estimator ...
... sample performance of the difference estimator . As the variables ' persistence increases , the asymptotic variance of the coefficients obtained with the difference estimator rises ( that is , the asymptotic precision of this estimator ...
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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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