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Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
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Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
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This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278276
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317898
In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …
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The quintessential crime of the information age is identity theft, the malicious use of personal identifying data. In …
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When estimating the extent of e.g. excess use of public benefits one traditionally uses direct monitoring. Such direct estimates are afflicted with an intrinsic negative bias since you only count what you find. This paper presents and assesses an alternative intuitive, yet relatively unexplored,...
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In this report we examine the excess use of Temporary Parental Benefit for parents who need to stay home from work when their children are sick. This study is based on a randomized experiment that took place during the spring 2006. The method used is rather new and more ambitious than those used...
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In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that- at least for the case of … property crime - the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in … plausible hypotheses. On the whole, our results imply that urban crime in Latin America is, to an important extent, a reflection …
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industrial and economic development. On the other hand we find strong evidence that organized crime, measured as high murder … past to suggest that the correlation captures, at least in part, a stable and possibly causal link between organized crime …
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