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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... serially correlated . Under the assumption that the error term , e , is not serially correlated , the assumption of weak exogeneity of the explanatory variables implies the following moment conditions , E [ X ] = 0 for s≥ 1 ( 9 ) These ...
... serially correlated . Under the assumption that the error term , e , is not serially correlated , the assumption of weak exogeneity of the explanatory variables implies the following moment conditions , E [ X ] = 0 for s≥ 1 ( 9 ) These ...
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... serially correlated . And sec- ond , although there may be correlation between the levels of the right - hand side variables and the country - specific effect , there is no correlation between the differences of these variables and the ...
... serially correlated . And sec- ond , although there may be correlation between the levels of the right - hand side variables and the country - specific effect , there is no correlation between the differences of these variables and the ...
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... serial correlation tests . From the regressions ignoring country- specific effects ( regressions ( 2 ) to ( 6 ) ) and those accounting for them ( regressions ( 7 ) and ( 8 ) ) , the most robust and significant results in relation to the ...
... serial correlation tests . From the regressions ignoring country- specific effects ( regressions ( 2 ) to ( 6 ) ) and those accounting for them ( regressions ( 7 ) and ( 8 ) ) , the most robust and significant results in relation to 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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