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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... statistically insignificant when the regressions were run for high - income communities alone . The effects of income levels and distribu- tion on crime were further analyzed by Ehrlich ( 1973 , 538-540 ) . He argued that payoffs to ...
... statistically insignificant when the regressions were run for high - income communities alone . The effects of income levels and distribu- tion on crime were further analyzed by Ehrlich ( 1973 , 538-540 ) . He argued that payoffs to ...
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... statistically different from zero , even after includ- ing the variable that controls for the existence of the death penalty , which may indicate that high convictions rates tend to deter criminal activity independently of the ...
... statistically different from zero , even after includ- ing the variable that controls for the existence of the death penalty , which may indicate that high convictions rates tend to deter criminal activity independently of the ...
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... statistically larger in countries that produce drugs . The drug possession crime rate , which proxies for the effects of both illegal drug consumption and for the violence emanating from the distribution of illegal drugs , is also ...
... statistically larger in countries that produce drugs . The drug possession crime rate , which proxies for the effects of both illegal drug consumption and for the violence emanating from the distribution of illegal drugs , is also ...
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... statistically significant . An interesting result , that contrasts with those of the homicide regressions , is that the urbanization rate seems to have a positive and sig- nificant association with the robbery rate ; the coefficient is ...
... statistically significant . An interesting result , that contrasts with those of the homicide regressions , is that the urbanization rate seems to have a positive and sig- nificant association with the robbery rate ; the coefficient is ...
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... statistically significant and shows that , as expected , crime is counter - cycli- cal ; stagnant economic activity induces height- ened homicide rates . Second , higher income inequality , measured by the Gini index , increases the ...
... statistically significant and shows that , as expected , crime is counter - cycli- cal ; stagnant economic activity induces height- ened homicide rates . Second , higher income inequality , measured by the Gini index , increases 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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