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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... tends to be counter - cyclical , and criminal inertia is significant even after controlling for other potential determinants of homicide and robbery rates . INTRODUCTION A GROWING CONCERN ACROSS THE WORLD is the heightened vii III.
... tends to be counter - cyclical , and criminal inertia is significant even after controlling for other potential determinants of homicide and robbery rates . INTRODUCTION A GROWING CONCERN ACROSS THE WORLD is the heightened vii III.
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... tends to persist over time ( criminal inertia ) , even after controlling for other determinants of criminal behavior . All these results are robust to models that take into account the likely joint endogeneity of the explanatory ...
... tends to persist over time ( criminal inertia ) , even after controlling for other determinants of criminal behavior . All these results are robust to models that take into account the likely joint endogeneity of the explanatory ...
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... tends to go unreported.5 The author finds that most of this negative relationship in the U.S. is due to deterrence ... tend to spend more time in criminal activity than a risk - averse individual . Another implication of assuming risk ...
... tends to go unreported.5 The author finds that most of this negative relationship in the U.S. is due to deterrence ... tend to spend more time in criminal activity than a risk - averse individual . Another implication of assuming risk ...
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... tend to be low in high crime areas . An important implication of this analysis is that " past crime breeds future crime " ( Sah 1991 , 1282 ) . In a similar analysis , Posada ( 1994 ) presented a simple model where a random increase in ...
... tend to be low in high crime areas . An important implication of this analysis is that " past crime breeds future crime " ( Sah 1991 , 1282 ) . In a similar analysis , Posada ( 1994 ) presented a simple model where a random increase in ...
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... tend to be stigmatized in the legal labor market , thus having diminished employment opportuni- ties and expected income ( lower w ) . Second , criminals can learn by doing , which means that the costs of carrying out criminal acts , c ...
... tend to be stigmatized in the legal labor market , thus having diminished employment opportuni- ties and expected income ( lower w ) . Second , criminals can learn by doing , which means that the costs of carrying out criminal acts , c ...
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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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