Crime and the Economy: homicide rates and economic variables in Mexico (2000, 2005, 2010)

This work deals with the empirical validity of four hypotheses linking economic factors with violent crime. To measure the effects of the explicative variables and to control for the influence of outliers in the distribution of homicide rates, robust regression techniques where applied to data from...

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Main Author: Luis David Ramírez de Garay
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Colegio de México 2014-09-01
Series:Estudios Sociológicos
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Online Access:http://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/49