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. Preschool lead exposure trends continue to predict global crime trends and USA trends in education attainment, mental … and associated adverse impacts on IQ, education, and behavior. Cognitive psychology research also shows an association … between IQ and education and behavior risks, but finds that IQ is largely inherited. The impact of lead exposure was barely …
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inflation, unemployment, investment, education and health are examined through an annual data set from 1980 to 2007. To test the …. Results show that education and health have a positive and significant relationship with most of the criminal activities in …
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Empirical results using cross-country data suggest that public spending on education increases the rate of students … skipping school but does not influence the rate of students completing school. This infers that public spending on education … leads to a deterioration in the effectiveness of education. …
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in the Caribbean. The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficacy of public spending on health care and education by …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of remittances on Latin America`s economic growth thorough 1976-2007 controlling the potential endogeneity of the regressors through system GMM estimators for dynamic data panel model. The main conclusion is that remittances had a negative and...
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The aim of this study is to show that financial liberalization, as a determinant of financial development, can stimulate the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth. Two distinct components have been analyzed. The first one is a theoretical component in which we...
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Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal … of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model … (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime can affect economic performance. The model is based on five basic indicators …
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Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal … of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model … (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime on economic performance. The model is based on five basic indicators – (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260581
Crime is an illness that attacks rights of individuals. It therefore interests everybody in a society. It is argued … that as urbanization increases so does crime. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of … crime in urban areas by using cross-sectional data. The results we get indicate that per capita income, income inequality …
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for crime, I examine why this system came under strain during the Industrial Revolution, and how private associations were … of crime in a period when Public Choice considerations precluded the introduction of a professional police force. …
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