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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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1 results foundAuthor: Cerulli, Giovanni Title: The Economic Determinants of Crime: an Approach through Responsiveness Scores Summary: Criminality has always been part of human social interactions, shaping the way peoples have constructed states and legislation. As social order became a greater concern for the public authorities, interest in investigating incentives pushing individuals towards engaging in illegal activities has become a central issue of the political agenda. Building on the existing literature, this paper proposes to focus on a few primary determinants of crime, whose e ect is in- vestigated using a Responsiveness Scores (RS) approach performed over 50 US states during the period 2000-2012. The RS approach allows us to account for unit heterogeneous response to each single determinant, thus paving the way to a more in-depth analysis of the relation between crime and its drivers. We attempt to overcome the limitations posed by standard regression methods, which assume a single coecient for all determinants, thus contributing to the literature in the field with stronger evidence on determinants' e ects and the geographical patterns of responsiveness scores. Details: Boston College Working Paper in Economics, 2018. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 8, 2018 at: https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocoec/948.html Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/EC-P/wp948.pdf Shelf Number: 151468 Keywords: Crime Economic Approach Incentives Responsiveness Scores |