Unemployment and crime: A neighborhood level panel data approach

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1615-1628

  Andresen, Martin A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crime; Fixed effects; Hybrid modeling; Panel data; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866550847     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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