The effect of reporting errors on the cross-country relationship between inequality and crime

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.12.001

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“…The inequality across religious groups is expected to become even larger during disasters, since poorer households are usually more vulnerable to disaster risks. As theoretically presented by Becker (1968) and Kornhauser (1978), and empirically tested by many researchers, economic inequality aggravates crime (Fajnzylber et al, 2002;Barslund et al, 2007;Gibson and Kim, 2008).…”

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confidence: 86%

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Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

Shoji

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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This study employs unique household data collected in cyclone-affected communities in Bangladesh to uncover the impact of religious fractionalisation on victimization to crime after the disaster. The identification strategy relies on two natures of the study area: 1) the religious composition is stable; and 2) the pre-disaster socio-economic status of households is uncorrelated with religious fractionalisation and disaster damage, after controlling for the observed characteristics. The findings suggest that following a natural disaster, households in disaster-affected and religiously fractionalised communities are more likely to be victims than those in non-fractionalised communities. This is caused by the misallocation of disaster reliefs in fractionalised communities.JEL Classification: O12; Z12; K42

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confidence: 86%

“…However, since the data on crime incidence generally suffer from the under-reporting bias, this study rather uses the households' experience of crime victimisation, by following Gaviria and Pagés (2002), Barslund et al (2007), Gibson and Kim (2008), and Cameron and Shah (2014).…”

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Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

Shoji

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…In sum, it is hard to argue that unobserved state fixed effects have no correlation with the independent variables in the model and panel fixed effect estimates is the prudent method to pursue. Prior studies that utilize panel data generally employ fixed effects estimation instead of random effects (Buonanno and Montolio 2009; Cornwell and Trumbull 1994; Dahlberg and Gustavsson 2008; Doyle, Ahmed, and Horn 1999; Edmark 2005; Gibson and Kim 2008). Given the above, this study employs fixed effect panel estimation for all of the regression analysis.…”

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Assessing the Impacts of Labor Market and Deterrence Variables on Crime Rates in Mexico

Liu

Fullerton

Ashby

2012

Contemporary Economic Policy

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Many studies examine the relationship between crime rates and various economic and/or sociodemographic variables in high income countries, but similar efforts for middle and low income countries are less common. Utilizing an 8‐year panel data sample for all 32 states in Mexico, this study assesses the impact of Mexican labor market and deterrence variables on various Mexican crime rates. The principal results indicate that: (1) State gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has ambiguous effect on crime rates under different conditions. Both wages and unemployment rates are negatively linked with crime rates. (2) Although the Mexican judicial and public security systems are widely believed to be ineffective, increased federal police forces and incarceration rates are associated with lower crime rates, but higher public security expenditure per capita is associated with higher crime rates. (3) The impacts from labor market and deterrence variables presented in (1) and (2) continue to hold under the Fox administration as well as for non‐border states. Their respective impacts diminish, however, under the Calderon administration as well as for border states because of the small number of observations. Overall, the results indicate that increasing average wages, federal police forces, and incarceration rates would have significant impacts on reducing crime rates in Mexican states. (JEL O54, K42)

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“…Hence, the reporting rate is not expected to be constant across countries, nor across time, but will depend on the country's changing characteristics (Gibson and Bonggeun Kim, ). As the reporting rate does not vary randomly across countries, ignoring this issue would result in biased estimates.…”

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Does Globalisation Affect Crime? Theory and Evidence

2016

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Globalisation sceptics argue that trade liberalisation has high social costs, including an increase in expropriative behaviour such as civil conflict, coercion of labour and crime. We show that a theoretical relationship between trade and expropriation exists, but the sign differs for developed and developing economies. We verify this empirically using data on crime rates. Specifically, we find that trade liberalisation, as measured by both higher openness and lower import duty rates, tends to increase burglaries and theft in very labour‐abundant countries. For other countries, however, we find that trade liberalisation has either a small negative effect on crime or no effect, depending on the country's capital abundance.

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The effect of reporting errors on the cross-country relationship between inequality and crime

Cited by 24 publications

References 12 publications

Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

Assessing the Impacts of Labor Market and Deterrence Variables on Crime Rates in Mexico

Does Globalisation Affect Crime? Theory and Evidence

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