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The impact of social capital on crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, İ. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 323-340
This research shows that social capital is important in explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. Social … negatively correlated with current crime rates, after controlling for a range of contemporaneous socio-economic indicators. Next …
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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762273
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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, Semih; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150875
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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, Semih; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712152
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A economia do crime: uma abordagem a partir da Região Policial da Grande São Paulo
Carrera-Fernandez, José; Pereira, Rogério - In: Economia 3 (2002) 1, pp. 193-230
approach of the economics of crime. It was taken to the analysis the crimes of theft, robbery, and theft and robbery of … vehicles, as well as the aggregate of these three modalities of crime, all reported to the police in that important region. The … analysis was based on well known models in the fields of economics of crime and econometrics, capable to analyze the importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968612
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Crimonometric Analysis: Testing the Deterrence Hypothesis in Sabah
Lau, Evan; Hamzah, Siti Nur Zahara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper empirically estimates disaggregated crime categories for Sabah from 1968 to 2006. The criminometric analysis … prison or courts related variables. In the long run we find that only robbery is exogenous in all crime model tested however …, the beyond sample estimation proves that in longer time period of approximately 50 years the post-sample dynamic VDCs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113213
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A REFINED INGLEHART INDEX OF MATERIALISM AND POSTMATERIALISM
Hansen, Oliver; Tol, Richard S.J. - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), … - 2003
analysis to correct national averages of the Inglehart index for the effects of observed inflation and (violent) crime rates … for selected European, Asian and South American countries. Low inflation and low crime rates significantly increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761431
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Balzac and the Crimes of the Powerful
Ruggiero, Vincenzo - In: Societies 5 (2015) 2, pp. 325-338
This paper proposes a journey through some of the many novels written by Honoré de Balzac, through the mythic constitution of his world, his epic, which summons up the same recurrent circle of figures: his “human comedy” will offer surprising insights for a better understanding of the...
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Social Capital and Economic Growth Revisited
Hjerppe, Reino - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2003
Social capital facilitates cooperation in the society. High level of social capital promotes economic efficiency by lowering transaction costs. Trust towards strangers and low level of corruption are examples of high level of social capital. The concept of social capital is already an old one,...
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Painting the Town Red? Wal-Mart and Values
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Meiners, Jeremy - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2008
This essay explores the relationship between commerce and culture in the context of the recent debate over the social effect of Wal-Mart. In spite of much public debate, little is known about how Wal-Mart affects values. Using data collected from multiple sources, we show there is little...
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