Showing 1 - 10 of 367
Using panel co-integration techniques and a comprehensive dataset covering the period 1980-2013, this paper finds a positive and significant correlation between national saving and domestic investment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The estimated correlation is approximately 0.39;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339421
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of debt on economic growth through two alternative methodological approaches. On the one hand, by using a panel error correction model with a sample of 130 countries between 1980 and 2020, we found evidence of the existence of a range of debt-to-GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461312
who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247934
Buenos Aires, Argentina. We find a large, significant, robust, and immediate decline in crime following quarantine … restrictions. We observe the effect on property crime reported to official agencies, police arrests, and crime reported in … still large in commercial and residential areas (including informal settlements). After the sharp and immediate fall, crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601268
effects on future performance in the labor market. -- Military Service ; Violent behavior ; Crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729425
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286512
This paper analyses the effect of local crime rates on the mental well-being of residents. Our identification strategy … addresses the problem of sorting, and endogenous moving behaviour. We find that crime causes considerable mental distress of … residents, and that these effects are mainly driven by property crime. However, individuals react also to violent crime, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225507
Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010244876
local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457936
per 100,000 population and with an increasing trend. Yet most evidence of crime concentration, geo-temporal patterns, and … event dependence comes from cities in high-income countries. Understanding crime patterns in the region and how they compare … to those in high-income countries is of first-order importance to formulate crime reduction policies. This paper is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521278