An edition of The economics of crime
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The economics of crime
lessons for and from Latin America
by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky
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Table of Contents
Overview: Latin America exceptionalism?
Understanding high crime rates in Latin America: the role of social and policy factors / Rodrigo R. Soares and Joana Naritomi ; comment: Alejandro Gaviria
The economics of crime meets Latin America. Capital crimes: kidnappings and corporate investment in Colombia / Rony Pshisva and Gustavo A. Suarez ; comment: Juan Pantano
The cost of avoiding crime: the case of Bogotá / Alejandro Gaviria, Carlos Medina, Leonardo Morales, and Jairo Núñez ; comment: Alfredo Canavese
Do conflicts create poverty traps? : asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia / Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya ; comment: Martín González Rozada
Crime distribution and victim behavior during a crime wave / Rafael Di Tella, Sebastián Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky ; comment: Lucas Ronconi
Assessing São Pauloś large drop in homicides: the role of demography and policy interventions / João M P de Mello and Alexandre Schneider ; comment: Lucas Llach
The quality of life in prisons: do educational programs reduce in-prison conflicts? / María Laura Alzúa, Catherine Rodriguez, and Edgar Villa ; comment: Andrés Borenstein
International evidence. What do economists know about crime? / Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Garrett Summers ; comment: Philip J. Cook
Peaceable kingdoms and war zones: preemption, ballistics and murder in Newark / Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi ; comment: Guillermo Cruces
Crime displacement and police interventions: evidence from London's "operation theseus" / Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, and Robert Witt ; comment: Catherine Rodriguez
The impact of incentives on human behavior: can we make it disappear? the case of the death penalty / Naci Mocan and Kaj Gittings ; comment: Lucía Quesada
Does arrest deter violence? comparing experimental and non-experimental evidence on mandatory arrest laws / Radha Iyengar ; comment: Rafael Di Tella.
Edition Notes
Papers presented at the conference "Crime, Institutions, and Policies", organized by the Inter American Seminar on Economics of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Laboratorio de Investigaciones sobre Crimen, Instituciones y Políticas of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 29-30, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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