The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá
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- Alejandro Gaviria & Carlos Medina & Leonardo Morales & Jairo Núñez, 2010. "The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, pages 101-132, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Alejandro Gaviria & Carlos Medina & Leonardo Morales & Jairo Nuñez, 2008. "The Cost of Avoiding Crime: The Case of Bogotá," Borradores de Economia 508, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
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Keywords
Housing Demand; Crime; Illegal Behavior; Law Enforcement;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAM-2008-04-21 (Central & South America)
- NEP-URE-2008-04-21 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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