Journal article
INCOME DISTRIBUTION, POLICE EXPENDITURES, AND CRIME: A POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE
Journal of the European Economic Association, v 1(2-3), pp 450-458
Apr 2003
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Abstract
In this paper, I present a structural approach to investigate empirically the relation between income distribution, police expenditures and crime. The approach is based on the estimation of an equilibrium model where heterogeneous individuals choose whether to engage in criminal activities and expenditures on police to apprehend criminals are determined endogenously through majority voting. I discuss the identification and estimation of the parameters of the structural model using data for the United States. (JEL: D72, D78, K42)
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- Title
- INCOME DISTRIBUTION, POLICE EXPENDITURES, AND CRIME: A POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE
- Creators
- Antonio Merlo - Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Publication Details
- Journal of the European Economic Association, v 1(2-3), pp 450-458
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 9
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000208907900017
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77957101452
- Other Identifier
- 991022026857804721
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