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Determinants of Crime Rates in Latin America and the World: by Pablo Fajnzylber

By Pablo Fajnzylber

A transforming into challenge in such a lot areas of the realm is the heightened prevalence of legal and violent habit, particularly within the Latin American and Caribbean sector. This examine makes use of a brand new info set of crime premiums for a wide pattern of nations to investigate the determinants of nationwide murder and theft charges. The authors describe an easy version of "incentives to dedicate crimes" via estimating a number of econometric types and using empirical versions to attract their conclusions.

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Stigler. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. , Bruce Sacerdote, and Jose A. Blundell, Richard, and Stephen Bond. 1997. " Discussion Papers in Economics 97-07, Department of Economics, University College London. "Journal of Econometrics31: 93-118. Holtz-Eakin, Douglas,Whitney Newey, and Harvey S. Rosen. 1988. " Economitetrica 56: 1371-1395. Caselli, Francesco, Gerardo Esquive], and Fernando Lefort. 1996. Journal of Economic Growth. Leung, Siu Fai. 1995. " Economica 62: 65-87.

I CAL I MP LEMEN TATION m 23 And, fourth, we would like to control for the presence of unobserved country-specific effects. Our preferred panel estimation strategy follows the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator proposed by Chamberlain (1984), Holtz-Eakin, Newey and Rosen (1988), Arellano and Bond (1991), and Arellano and Bover (1995), which has been applied to crosscountry studies by Caselli, Esquivel and Lefort (1996) and Easterly, Loayza and Montiel (1997). 16 We will work under two econometric models.

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