Brown Bag seminar | Inferring neighborhood rates of uncaptured crime suspects: Potential crime communities in Medellin with Alejandro Puerta
The seminar speaker is Alejandro Puerta, University Carlos III de Madrid | UC3M and ENTER, who will present "Inferring neighborhood rates of uncaptured crime suspects: Potential crime communities in Medellin".
Abstract
This paper analyzes the rates of crime suspects living per neighborhood in Medellín (Colombia). We exploit a novel dataset consisting of confidential reports of residential addresses at the moment of capture of a suspect of a crime, so as to identify hot spots, that is, "crime communities'': neighborhoods where relatively more suspects live. We find that "crime communities'' depend both on the crime typology and time. Statistical evidence suggests a high level of interaction between homicides and drug dealing on the one hand, and motorcycle and car thefts on the other hand. Our model is based on a novel specification taking into account persistent and transient one-sided error components and spatial effects within a panel data structure. Our simulation exercises suggest that our proposal has good finite sample performance.
Alejandro Puerta is a PhD student in Economics at University Carlos III de Madrid | UC3M in Getafe, Spain. Alejandro's research focuses on Applied Econometrics and Bayesian Statistics.
More About the Speaker
This seminar is IRL at Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, room 320.
Please contact kristen.pendleton@hhs.se if you have questions.
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The EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR TRAINING IN ECONOMIC RESEARCH (ENTER) is a cooperative venture between eight leading European Economics Departments, located in Barcelona (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), London (United Kingdom), Madrid (Spain), Mannheim (Germany), Stockholm (Sweden), Tilburg (the Netherlands) and Toulouse (France).
ENTER exchange seminars offer students the possibility to visit universities in the network to present papers and interact with students and faculty members in the other institutions.