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

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Borradores de Economía; No. 755

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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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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

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K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
C31 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
K40 - 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://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/755.html
 https://doi.org/10.32468/be.755

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