prison: prison

prisonR Documentation

prison

Description

Wooldridge Source: S.D. Levitt (1996), “The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Legislation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 111, 319-351. Professor Levitt kindly provided me with the data, of which I used a subset. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('prison')

Format

A data.frame with 714 observations on 45 variables:

  • state: alphabetical; DC = 9

  • year: 80 to 93

  • govelec: =1 if gubernatorial election

  • black: proportion black

  • metro: proportion in metro. areas

  • unem: proportion unemployed

  • criv: viol. crimes per 100,000

  • crip: prop. crimes per 100,000

  • lcriv: log(criv)

  • lcrip: log(crip)

  • gcriv: lcriv - lcriv_1

  • gcrip: lcrip - lcrip_1

  • y81: =1 if year == 81

  • y82:

  • y83:

  • y84:

  • y85:

  • y86:

  • y87:

  • y88:

  • y89:

  • y90:

  • y91:

  • y92:

  • y93:

  • ag0_14: prop. pop. 0 to 14 yrs

  • ag15_17: prop. pop. 15 to 17 yrs

  • ag18_24: prop. pop. 18 to 24 yrs

  • ag25_34: prop. pop. 25 to 34 yrs

  • incpc: per capita income, nominal

  • polpc: police per 100,000 residents

  • gincpc: log(incpc) - log(incpc_1)

  • gpolpc: lpolpc - lpolpc_1

  • cag0_14: change in ag0_14

  • cag15_17: change in ag15_17

  • cag18_24: change in ag18_24

  • cag25_34: change in ag25_34

  • cunem: change in unem

  • cblack: change in black

  • cmetro: change in metro

  • pris: prison pop. per 100,000

  • lpris: log(pris)

  • gpris: lpris - lpris[_n-1]

  • final1: =1 if fnl dec on litig, curr yr

  • final2: =1 if dec on litig, prev 2 yrs

Used in Text

pages 573-574

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(prison)

wooldridge documentation built on May 3, 2023, 5:06 p.m.