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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation
Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
than before, reaching 18 years of age, in which case they are less likely to recidivate in any type of crime. The change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763653
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Goals Met or Just Empty Promises? First Version of the Democratic Security Policy in Colombia
Gerson Javier Pérez V. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2012
fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security … strategies changed, and as a result, the effects on crime rates are mostly large, negative and significant. There was a clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763658
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The Democratic Security Policy: Socioeconomic Effects in the Rural Areas, 2002-2006
Gerson Javier Pérez V. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2012
This paper measures the impact of strengthening the security policy on the rural labour market in Colombia by … exploiting the structural change in the number of rural seizures. The new policy produced dissimilar effects across gender, age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763675
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An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction
Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2011
We assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual´s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799762
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The Effect of Adult Criminals´ Spillovers On the Likelihood of Youths Becoming Criminals
Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés; Posso, Christian - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
, affect the likelihood to become criminal, although with differential importance by type of crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828176
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Assessing the Link between Adolescent Fertility and Urban Crime
Gaviria, Alejandro; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2010
high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen mothers become teenagers, are more likely to have higher homicide … rates in the future, when those children reach their peak crime ages, estimated to be between 18 to 26 years old in violent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008503166
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The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá
Gaviria, Alejandro; Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo; … - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2008
We use hedonic price models to estimate the value households are willing to pay to avoidviolent crime in the city of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768174