Unemployment or Inflation? What Does the Misery Index Say about the Causes of Crime?
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2021
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ODTU
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Özet
Even if the analysis of illegal activities takes attention after the 1960s in economics, the
cause and consequence of crime is an old subject for social sciences. The first period of crime
and economics analysis was micro-based theories focusing on a person’s intensive for illegal
activities. However, in recent years macroeconomics based analysis gain weight in literature
instead of micro-based cost-benefit analysis of crime. The study examines the misery index and
crime linkages for the 'Fragile Five', using dynamic panel data analysis for 2004-2017. It is
found that the increases in the index of misery cause rising crime rate
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Misery index, Crime, Fragile Five, unemployment, inflation
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