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It has often been observed that there is substantial spatial variation in criminality, i.e. criminality clusters in neighborhoods. Differences in neighborhood characteristics are one possible reason, social interactions another. In this paper we use detailed data on the residential location of...
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areas through elements of poverty and crime. As such, the degradation process is rendered visible on the basis of social … of the squatters as the origins of poverty and crime will be rendered debatable within the perspective of urban … that this area has been attracting attention for years due to its increasing poverty and crime rates, brought about urban …
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In this paper, we estimate the effects of neighborhood crime and in-school crime on educational outcomes for elementary … determination of both types of crime along with school outcomes. Despite the large empirical literature on both education production … functions and crime incidence, there has been little empirical work on crime's effect on school outcomes. One exception is …
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impact of neighbourhood crime on housing investment was 44 % and aggregate P-value was 0.000. Using the Hosmer and Lemeshow … indicates that the alternative hypothesis is upheld that residential neighbourhood crime is capable of impacting on residential … activities, the paper emphasizes on the contribution of each component of property crime. One thousand (1000) sets of structured …
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This study examines how a payday loan regulation has affected crime in neighborhoods where payday loans used to be … prevalent. The empirical evidence suggests that financially motivated crime declined both in the short and intermediate terms in … measurable declines in non-financial crime are detected, neither are changes in foreclosures or other business activities …
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