Research Article

An Econometric Investigation of the Impact of Gender Income Gap on the Gender Gap in Crime: The Case of Arkansas State

Volume: 6 Number: 6 December 2, 2018
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An Econometric Investigation of the Impact of Gender Income Gap on the Gender Gap in Crime: The Case of Arkansas State

Abstract

The paper examines the determinants of crime by focusing on gender issue. We randomly select the state of Arkansas and four counties in Arkansas. We estimate econometric models to examine the determinants of crime market participation. Estimations based on ordinal least squares using clustered robust standard errors imply that probability of arrest affects the crime market participation. One of the significant contribution of the paper is that, according to the estimation results crime gap increases as gender income gap increases explaining the decline in the gender wage gap and gender gap in crime in the last decades. Furthermore the results contrary to literature, imply that there is threshold level after which increase in probability of arrest leads to the crime market participation.   

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English

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Research Article

Authors

Deniz Guvercin *
İSTANBUL AREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, ULUSLARARASI TİCARET VE FİNANS BÖLÜMÜ
Türkiye

Publication Date

December 2, 2018

Submission Date

December 14, 2017

Acceptance Date

May 28, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Volume: 6 Number: 6

APA
Guvercin, D. (2018). An Econometric Investigation of the Impact of Gender Income Gap on the Gender Gap in Crime: The Case of Arkansas State. Anemon Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 6(6), 1001-1010. https://izlik.org/JA35BN82LX