Understanding aggregate crime regressions

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 306-317

  Durlauf, Steven N ^a   Navarro, Salvador ^a   Rivers, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital punishment; Crime regressions; Deterrence

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CRIME DETERMINANTS; DECISION PROBLEMS; DETERRENCE; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; POLICY EVALUATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CRIME;

EID: 79960530747     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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