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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... tion , its level of education , and the degree of income inequality , which are considered as explanatory variables in our empirical model of crime . Of all types of crime , intentional homi- cide is the one that suffers the least from ...
... tion , its level of education , and the degree of income inequality , which are considered as explanatory variables in our empirical model of crime . Of all types of crime , intentional homi- cide is the one that suffers the least from ...
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... tion of income ; namely , the share of national income received by the poorest 20 percent of the population . The negative and significant Table 2. Continued coefficient of this variable tells us that crime tends to decline as the ...
... tion of income ; namely , the share of national income received by the poorest 20 percent of the population . The negative and significant Table 2. Continued coefficient of this variable tells us that crime tends to decline as the ...
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... tion effects and intentional homicide rates . The presence of police seems to reduce crime , but the negative coefficient is not significant . The coeffi- cients corresponding to the conviction rate are statistically different from zero ...
... tion effects and intentional homicide rates . The presence of police seems to reduce crime , but the negative coefficient is not significant . The coeffi- cients corresponding to the conviction rate are statistically different from zero ...
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... tion between the urbanization rate and other economic variables , such as income per capita , the Gini index , and , especially , the education variables . Still , we expected that the urbanization rate could provide information on the ...
... tion between the urbanization rate and other economic variables , such as income per capita , the Gini index , and , especially , the education variables . Still , we expected that the urbanization rate could provide information on the ...
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... tion means that current explanatory variables may be affected by past and current crime rates but not by future crime rates . In practice we assume that all variables are weakly exogenous except for the drug producers dummy and the GDP ...
... tion means that current explanatory variables may be affected by past and current crime rates but not by future crime rates . In practice we assume that all variables are weakly exogenous except for the drug producers dummy and the GDP ...
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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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