Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime
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- 1 January 1999
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary with the business cycle, creating correlatioKeywords
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