What Do Economists Know about Crime?

Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron & Garrett Summers
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Copyright 2010
ISBN 0-226-15374-6
The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America
Book: The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America
Book editors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards & Ernesto Schargrodsky
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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What Do Economists Know About Crime?
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Author(s): Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron & Garrett Summers
In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base...

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