Prison: Prison and Crimes
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yearly observations of 51 states from 1979 to 1993

number of observations : 765

country : United-States

economic topic : instrumental variables

econometrics topic : Economics of crime

1	data(Prison)

A dataframe containing :

state: state index
year: year
criv: violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants
crip: property crimes per 100,000 inhabitants
incpc: income per capita
polpc: police per 100,000 residents
pris: prison population per 100,000 inhabitants
ag0_14: proportion of popuation 0 to 14 years
ag15_17: proportion of popuation 15 to 17 years
ag18_24: proportion of popuation 18 to 24 years
ag25_34: proportion of popuation 25 to 34 years
unem: unemployment rate
black: proportion of black
metro: proportion in metropolitan areas
final1: =1 if a final decision was reach on overcrowding litigation in the current year
final2: =1 if a final decision was reach on overcrowding litigation in the previous two years

Wooldridge's "Econometrics analysis of cross section and panel data" website http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/econometric-analysis-cross-section-and-panel-data.

Levitt, Stephen D. (1996) “The effect of prison population size on crime rates: evidence from prison overcowding litigation”, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 319-351.

Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics

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