INCOME DISTRIBUTION, POLICE EXPENDITURES, AND CRIME: A POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Merlo, Antonio
署名单位：
University of Pennsylvania
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
ISSN/ISSBN：
1542-4766
DOI：
10.1162/154247603322391080
发表日期：
2003
页码：
450-458
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摘要：
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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