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This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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crime, more game stores are associated with significant declines in crime rates. Proxies for other leisure activities …
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This paper analyzes measurement errors in crime data to see how they impact econometric estimates, particularly of the … key relationship between inequality and crime. Criminal victimization surveys of 140,000 respondents in 37 industrial … with measurement errors in official crime data. These measurement errors substantially attenuate both cross-sectional and …
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responds rationally to changes in the possible rewards and in the probability and severity of punishment. The experiments …
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Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its “neighbouring” effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational … have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or …
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random- and fixed-effects approaches. While there are limitations in the use of bias-motivation crime data in empirical … analysis, we find statistical significance between the incidence of hate crime and several economic and socioeconomic variables …. Most notably, among non-South states, a higher hate crime rate is associated with higher abuse rates, higher unemployment …
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friends with other criminals (by learning and acquiring proper know-how in the crime business). We first study the Nash … show that multiple equilibria with different number of active criminals and levels of involvement in crime activities may … formation and crime decisions game. We show that the multiplicity of equilibrium outcomes holds even when we allow for …
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duration will lead to increased crime rates. …
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A general equilibrium analysis of the effects of income redistribution and crime, showing that while expenditures on … police protection reduce crime, it is possible for the crime rate to increase with redistribution. …
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