Investigating Effective Determinants of Driving Offences in Iran

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Aboohamzeh, Dariush | 2012

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 42946 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Economics and Management
Advisor(s): Fatemi Ardestani, Farshad
Abstract:
In Economic literature, investigating effective determinants of driving offences is discussed in Economics of Crime. In this field the effect of economic and sometimes non-economic parameters on offences are investigated. Economics of Crime was introduced as a branch of economics after Becker (1968). Since then different studies have been done and many theories have been made to discuss the relation between economic Variables and crimes in the society. In this study we use a cross-province panel data of driving offences to investigate the Effective Determinants of these offences. The most important result is the deterring effect of the penalty. For example in the regression for the seventeen most frequent offences the coefficient of the penalty is -3.64 and the elasticity of offence to this variable is -2.26
Keywords:
Crime Economy ; Driving Offences ; Penalty Rate

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