The Relationship between the Misery Index and Crimes: Evidence from Iran

Piraee, Khosrow; Barzegar, M

doi:10.2202/2154-4611.1018

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“…The main goal of the paper is to examine the effect of institutional quality and misery index on the crime rate in Nigeria from 1986 to2016.For this purpose, the study embraces the theoretical model of Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973), which has been a baseline for most empirical models on crime and factors influencing it (Piraee & Barzegar, 2011;Saboor, et al, 2016;Lorde, et al, 2016). The rational behaviour theory of Becker-Ehrlich suggests positive nexus between unemployment and crime rate.…”

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“…For the purpose of the present study, the author modifies the empirical model of Tang and Lean (2009), Piraee and Barzegar (2011), Saboor et al (2016) by including institutional quality. The author empirically specifies the empirical model as stated below:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Based on this background, several authors have empirically examined the impact of economic misery index on crime function (Tang & Lean, 2009;Piraee & Barzegar, 2011;Özcan & Açıkalın, 2015). They document that there is positive relationship between crime and economic misery.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They document that there is positive relationship between crime and economic misery. Contrarily, some authors document a negative relationship between the two variables (Piraee & Barzegar, 2011;Saboor, Sadiq & Khan, 2016). Furthermore, the study of Igbinedion and Ebomoyi (2017) reveals that inflation and unemployment positively impact the crime rate, while Adekoya and Abdul Razak (2018) show a negative relationship between the misery index and property crime.…”

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Institutional Quality, Economic Misery and Crime Rate in Nigeria

Ajide

2019

Economics and Business

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This study examines the effect of institutional quality and misery index on crime rate in Nigeria. Data sourced for the period of 1986–2016 from the Nigerian Police Force, National Bureau of Statistics, International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) and World Bank Development Indicators are employed. The study applies the ARDL approach to co-integration in estimating the model built for the study. The results show that there is a long-run relationship among the variables. It further reveals that institutional quality reduces crime rate significantly in the short run while economic misery increases the level of crime in Nigeria. These results imply that gradual improvements in institutional arrangements within democratic administrations would further provide a more effective and efficient peaceful means for settling disputes and re-alignments of socio-economic inequalities, which seem to be the main causes of criminal activities in Nigeria.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Institutional Quality, Economic Misery and Crime Rate in Nigeria

Ajide

2019

Economics and Business

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“…The literature show that there is direct relationship between crime rate and misery index (Tang 2010;Tang and Lean 2009;Greenberg 2001;Tang 2011;Piraee and Barzegar 2011). Enormous studies have been made in this context worldwide but very few studies addressed the economic evaluation of crime function in Pakistan.…”

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Dynamic Reflections of Crimes, Quasi Democracy and Misery Index in Pakistan

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Massive increase in crimes has coexisted with rising inflation and high unemployment for the last couple of decades especially during democratic governments in Pakistan. In this paper, we explore the relationship between crime rate, misery index and democracy in Pakistan from 1975 to 2013. Granger causality test proposed the unidirectional causality running from misery index to crime rate in Pakistan. Estimating the crime function via Pasaran's conditional error correction model, we found the significant long run equilibrium relationship between Okun's misery index and crime rate which implies that rising inflation and unemployment rate are the major driving forces towards increasing crime rates in Pakistan. Finally, empirical evidence from Okun's misery index suggested that people are three times more miserable in quasi democratic periods than that of dictatorship. The Barrow's misery index model verifies that people are twice worsening in quasi democratic periods. Likewise, reported crimes are nearly twice during quasi democracy than quasi dictatorship. The crime model provided the evidence that people during quasi democratic governments are more likely tending towards crime as compared to quasi dictatorship during the study period in Pakistan. This implicitly advocates the fact that half hearted efforts and ill structured apparatus of democracy can augment the tendency of crime and misery rather than solution of such concerns of the economy.

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Measuring the Effect of the Misery Index on International Tourist Departures: Empirical Evidence from Mexico

López

2022

Economies

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Tourism’s capacity to alleviate poverty is one of the most important subjects in tourism studies, as tourism is capable of boosting economic growth and generating employment. On the other hand, it is known that lack of income and unemployment have negative effects on outbound tourism; however, the relationship between outbound tourism and poverty has been understudied. In this paper, we compute a vector autoregressive (VAR) model to analyze the relationship between tourist departures from Mexico and a modified misery index to measure the effect of the loss of well-being, measured in terms of this index, on the number of outbound tourists. The results indicate that increases in the misery index have negative effects on the number of outbound tourists. Conversely, there is no statistically significant effect of tourist departures on the misery index. The results also suggest that the depreciation of the national currency exerts a positive effect on the misery index. Finally, based on the historical decomposition analysis, it was verified that the misery index was not closely related to outbound tourism during the first COVID-19 wave.

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The Relationship between the Misery Index and Crimes: Evidence from Iran

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Institutional Quality, Economic Misery and Crime Rate in Nigeria

Institutional Quality, Economic Misery and Crime Rate in Nigeria

Dynamic Reflections of Crimes, Quasi Democracy and Misery Index in Pakistan

Measuring the Effect of the Misery Index on International Tourist Departures: Empirical Evidence from Mexico

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