Translated title: Education and Crime: A Panel Data Analysis of the Czech Republic
Authors: Lin, Hsin-I ; Břízová, Pavla (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2015
Language: eng
Abstract: This thesis focuses on the relationship between crime and education, as well as macroeconomic and demographic factors such as police efficiency, GDP per capita, employment rate, population density, age and sexual composition of the society. We use the data of fourteen regions of the Czech Republic from 2000 to 2012. First, we apply the fixed-effect model in the data analysis, and further we use GMM for the estimation of new dynamic panel dataset. In addition, taking the possible time effects into account, we also add the time dummies in both regression models. Our finding finds the unexpectedly positive effects of secondary education with A-level exam, GDP per capita and the proportion of population aged 30-59 years old on most of criminal offences. On the other hand, the male ratio in population and the clearance rate are found to influence crimes negatively. Higher education and employment rate are also found to be related negatively with economic crimes. JEL Classification A14, E69, I21, I23, I25, I29, J19, R19 Keywords education, crime, employment, GDP, gender ratio, age, the Czech Republic, panel data, fixed-effect, GMM Author's e-mail cindy1114@livemail.tw Supervisor's e-mail brizova.ies@seznam.cz
Keywords: age; crime; education; employment; fixed-effect; GDP; gender ratio; GMM; panel data; the Czech Republic; age; crime; education; employment; fixed-effect; GDP; gender ratio; GMM; panel data; the Czech Republic

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/62824

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