Understanding Victimization: The Case of Mozambique

Barslund, Mikkel; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Chiconela, Jacinto

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.09.018

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“…In fact, there is a positive and significant relationship between being male and exposure to thefts (including larcenies and burglaries). This is in accordance with what is found by Gomes and Paz (2005) in the city of São Paulo and the result of Barslund et al (2007) in Mozambique, where males are found to have a higher probability of victimization of any type of crime than a female.…”

Section: Results For Crime Victimizationsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…In Africa, some recent works have addressed the issue. We have, for instance, a research in Mozambique (Barslund et al 2007) and another one in South Africa (Powdthavee 2005).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using the sociological theory of "life-style exposure perspective" (Hindelang et al 1978) 4 and that of the "routine activity perspective" (Cohen et al 1981), 5 Barslund et al (2007) found on the one hand that individuals living in a larger household size have less probability to be a victim of crime due to an intra-household protection network and on the other hand that the share of adults provides a significant negative effect on the probability of being victim of crime.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following Barslund et al (2007), we postulate that the probability that an individual be exposed to a given crime exhibits the reduced form as follows:…”

Section: Estimating Likelihood Of Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following Barslund et al (2007), we have defined our explanatory variables in the light of both economic and sociological theories of crime. Thus, we have built five major categories of variables relating to exposure, guardianship, proximity, attraction, and community.…”

Section: Estimating Likelihood Of Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Economic conditions, enforcement, and criminal activities in the district of Abidjan

Kimou

2010

Int Tax Public Finance

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Based on 1978Based on -2007 annual data on crimes recorded by the criminal police division and through a simultaneous equations model, we have shown that the probability of apprehension affects negatively the incidence of thefts and homicides as well as the incidence of aggregate crime. We have also provided evidence that exogenous shocks such as the devaluation of the CFA franc, the military coup d'état, and the civil war have significantly influenced criminal activity in Abidjan. The civil war which occurred in Côte d'Ivoire, while driving to a booming of property crimes, has deterred violent crimes given the crackdown effect of temporary massive presence of military and paramilitary forces in the streets of the city of Abidjan. In addition, using a sample of 1,600 households, our inquiry on the likelihood of crime victimization has pointed out that the risk of being victimized of any kind of crime increases with the income; the fact of being displaced due to the civil war and the decrease in the number of police stations in the neighborhood.

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Section: Results For Crime Victimizationsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…In Africa, some recent works have addressed the issue. We have, for instance, a research in Mozambique (Barslund et al 2007) and another one in South Africa (Powdthavee 2005).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following Barslund et al (2007), we postulate that the probability that an individual be exposed to a given crime exhibits the reduced form as follows:…”

Section: Estimating Likelihood Of Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Estimating Likelihood Of Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2010

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Work, Childcare, or Both? Experimental Evidence on the Efficacy of Childcare Subsidies in Raising Parental Labor Supply

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As a policy tool aimed at raising parental labor supply, childcare subsidies come with high expectations. Using data from a factorial survey conducted in the City of Bern, Switzerland, we examine whether childcare subsidies reach their goal. Because of the simultaneity of the decision to take up a job and arranging childcare, we experimentally alter hypothetical income (e.g., gross earnings from a job, income from other sources) as well as aspects of the childcare setting including subsidy levels. Using an alternative-specific conditional logit model, we show that subsidies have the expected effect of increasing parents’ labor supply. Moreover, the results from simulations based on the estimated utility function show that varying subsidy levels have different effects on subgroups of parents. Subsidies are especially efficient in raising the labor supply of low-status parents, and especially for women. We also find that subsidies already have the desired effect at 25% of total childcare costs and that the marginal utility of higher subsidy levels decreases beyond that threshold. Subsidies covering 25% of the total costs for childcare lead to an approximately 2 h per week increase in the labor supply of women.

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Estimating the Mental Health Effects of Social Isolation

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It is frequently hypothesized that feelings of social isolation are detrimental for an individual's mental health, however standard statistical models cannot estimate this effect due to reverse causality between the independent and dependent variables. In this paper we present endogeneity-corrected estimates of the mental health consequences of isolation (based on self-assessed loneliness scores) using Australian panel data. The central identification strategy comes from a natural source of variation where some people within our sample are required by work or study commitments to move home. This relocation may break individuals' social ties, resulting in significantly higher reported feelings of loneliness and consequently may lower mental health scores. The method gives results that are significant, robust and pass a battery of diagnostic tests. Estimates indicate that feelings of isolation have large negative consequences for psychological well-being, and that the effects are larger for women and older people. The results suggest that at current levels, a 10 % reduction applied to all individuals would reduce annual expenditure on mental illness in Australia by approximately $3B AUD, or around $150 AUD per person.

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Understanding Victimization: The Case of Mozambique

Cited by 67 publications

References 20 publications

Economic conditions, enforcement, and criminal activities in the district of Abidjan

Economic conditions, enforcement, and criminal activities in the district of Abidjan

Work, Childcare, or Both? Experimental Evidence on the Efficacy of Childcare Subsidies in Raising Parental Labor Supply

Estimating the Mental Health Effects of Social Isolation

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