Format
A dataframe containing :
- county
- county identifier
- year
- year from 1981 to 1987
- crmrte
- crimes committed per person
- prbarr
- 'probability' of arrest
- prbconv
- 'probability' of conviction
- prbpris
- 'probability' of prison sentenc
- avgsen
- average sentence, days
- polpc
- police per capita
- density
- people per square mile
- taxpc
- tax revenue per capita
- region
- one of 'other', 'west' or 'central'
- smsa
- 'yes' or 'no' if in SMSA
- pctmin
- percentage minority in 1980
- wcon
- weekly wage in construction
- wtuc
- weekly wage in trns, util, commun
- wtrd
- weekly wage in whole sales and retail trade
- wfir
- weekly wage in finance, insurance and real estate
- wser
- weekly wage in service industry
- wmfg
- weekly wage in manufacturing
- wfed
- weekly wage of federal emplyees
- wsta
- weekly wage of state employees
- wloc
- weekly wage of local governments employees
- mix
- offence mix: face-to-face/other
- pctymle
- percentage of young males
Source
Cornwell, C. and W.N. Trumbull (1994) “Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 76, 360--366. Baltagi, B. H. (forthcoming) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, .