CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Kim, Daria |
|---|---|
| Title | Understanding The Determinants Of Criminal Behavior In Post-Soviet And Post-Communist Countries |
| Summary | The dissolution of Soviet Union and collapse of the Communist system tremendously impacted the overall economic growth of post-Soviet and post-Communist. The breakup of the Soviet Union and burst-up of the Communist regime resulted in severe shocks to various institutions, such as economic, health care, educational, etc., making all countries vulnerable to unexpected economic and social fluctuations. It is a question of great importance how the above-mentioned countries managed their economic situation and what kind of social instabilities they struggled with. One of the possible issues that rose at that time is intentional homicide crimes. Nowadays, the data availability allows to make the analysis of dependent variables that could have influenced the level of intentional homicide crimes. In fact, the economics of crime is closely related to the economic and social factors. This thesis focuses mostly on economics variables and aims at finding the connection between the level of intentional homicide and unemployment rate, income inequality, inflation, and GDP per capita. To estimate the effect of a particular factor, the unbalanced panel of 496 observations within 26 countries in the period from 1991 to 2017 was used. |
| Supervisor | Zawadowski, Adam |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/kim_daria.pdf |
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