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Homicide and Economic Conditions

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Cook, PJ; Zarkin, G

Published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology

March 1986

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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Author Philip J. Cook Sanford School of Public Policy

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Journal of Quantitative Criminology

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March 1986

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Criminology
1602 Criminology

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Cook, P. J., & Zarkin, G. (1986). Homicide and Economic Conditions. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2(1).

Cook, P. J., and G. Zarkin. “Homicide and Economic Conditions.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 2, no. 1 (March 1986).

Cook PJ, Zarkin G. Homicide and Economic Conditions. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 1986 Mar;2(1).

Cook, P. J., and G. Zarkin. “Homicide and Economic Conditions.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 2, no. 1, Mar. 1986.

Cook PJ, Zarkin G. Homicide and Economic Conditions. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 1986 Mar;2(1).