Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime
By Steven D. Levitt. 2001
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Subfields: Modeling and Simulation, Sociology and Political Science
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- Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, unknown): “For w(r) we used a triangle function [18] with a width of the base of Dw: wðrÞ ¼ 1 À jrj= 1 2 Dw À Á for jrj 1 2 Dw 0 otherwise & ð7Þ The above defined fitness function is able to smooth in a controlled way the error landscape, and therefore allows the GA to locate the global minimum.”
- A random walk in the literature on criminality: A partial and critical view on some statistical analyses and modelling approaches (2010, unknown): “Levitt [73] argues that it is difficult to obtain significative insight on this issue from aggregated time series data at the national level, because unemployment has a very large variability at the local level.”
- Does Unemployment Increase Crime?: Evidence from U.S. Data 1974-2000 (2008, background): “See for example, Levitt (1996, 1997, 1998, 2001), Donohue and Levitt (2001) Raphael and WinterEmber (2001) and Gould, Weinberg, and Mustard (2002).”
- Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature (2017, unknown): “This hypothesis is echoed by Levitt (2001), who likewise argues that nationallevel time-series analyses obscure the unemployment– crime relationship by failing to account for rich variation across space.”
- Bank Mergers and Crime: The Real and Social Effects of Credit Market Competition (2004, unknown): “Other studies connect the economic environment to property crime (Freeman (1999), Levitt (2001), Raphael and Winter-Ebmer (2001), and Nilsson (2004)).”