The effect of adult criminals' spillovers on the likelihood of youths becoming criminals

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Borradores de Economía; No. 755
Date published
2013-02-04
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2013-02-04
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Medina-Durango, Carlos Alberto
Tamayo-Castaño, Jorge Andrés
Posso-Suárez, Christian Manuel
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Abstract
We use a unique data set at the individual level to estimate an empirical model explaining the probability of young individuals to become criminals as a function of the presence of adult criminals in their neighborhoods, an a complete set of control varia
JEL Codes
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of LawC31 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction ModelsK40 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior: General
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Crime ; Social interactions ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5895
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/5895
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.755
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/755.html
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