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The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá
Gaviria, Alejandro; Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo; … - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2008
We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoidviolent crime in the city of … capitalization of the presenceof police authority. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768174
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Assessing the Link between Adolescent Fertility and Urban Crime
Gaviria, Alejandro; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2010
high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … rates in the future, when those children reach their peak crime ages, estimated to be between 18 to 26 years old in violent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008503166
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The Effect of Adult Criminals´ Spillovers On the Likelihood of Youths Becoming Criminals
Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés; Posso, Christian - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
, affect the likelihood to become criminal, although with differential importance by type of crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828176
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An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction
Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2011
We assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual´s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799762
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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation
Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
than before, reaching 18 years of age, in which case they are less likely to recidivate in any type of crime. The change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763653
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Goals Met or Just Empty Promises? First Version of the Democratic Security Policy in Colombia
Gerson Javier Pérez V. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2012
fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security … strategies changed, and as a result, the effects on crime rates are mostly large, negative and significant. There was a clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763658
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The Democratic Security Policy: Socioeconomic Effects in the Rural Areas, 2002-2006
Gerson Javier Pérez V. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2012
This paper measures the impact of strengthening the security policy on the rural labour market in Colombia by exploiting the structural change in the number of rural seizures. The new policy produced dissimilar effects across gender, age-groups, and types of occupation. For adults, especially...
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