Homicide and economic conditions: A replication and critique of M. Harvey Brenner's new report to the U.S. Congress |
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Authors: | Philip J. Cook Gary A. Zarkin |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Policy Sciences, Duke University, 27706 Durham, North Carolina;(2) Department of Economics, Duke University, 27706 Durham, North Carolina |
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Abstract: | M. Harvey Brenner has produced two influential studies of the social costs of unemployment, economic inequality, and economic growth, both sponsored by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. This paper reports the results of an effort to reproduce Brenner's findings for homicide from his more recent (1984) study. Our conclusions are as follows. (1) Although not obvious from his write-up, Brenner's 1984 results differ substantively from his earlier results. (2) We are unable to reproduce his reported findings. (3) There are serious methodological problems with his procedure for choosing a regression specification. |
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Keywords: | Homicide business cycle economic change econometric methods replication |
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