Crime: Crime in North Carolina

Description

a panel of 90 observational units (counties) from 1981 to 1987

total number of observations : 630

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Crime)

Arguments

Format

A data frame 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: factor. One of 'other', 'west' or 'central'.
smsa: factor. Does the individual reside in a SMSA (standard metropolitan statistical area)?
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

Online complements to Baltagi (2001): http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/ Online complements to Baltagi (2013): http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=4338&itemId=1118672321&resourceId=13452 See also Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive entry for Baltagi (2006) at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2006-v21.4/baltagi/.

References

Cornwell, C. and W.N. Trumbull (1994) “Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 76, pp. 360--366.

Baltagi, B. H. (2006) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(4), pp. 543--547.

Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons. Baltagi, Badi H. (2013) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th ed., John Wiley and Sons.