prison

Description

Wooldridge Source: S.D. Levitt (1996), “The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Legislation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 111, 319-351. Professor Levitt kindly provided me with the data, of which I used a subset. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('prison')

Format

A data.frame with 714 observations on 45 variables:

• state: alphabetical; DC = 9

• year: 80 to 93

• govelec: =1 if gubernatorial election

• black: proportion black

• metro: proportion in metro. areas

• unem: proportion unemployed

• criv: viol. crimes per 100,000

• crip: prop. crimes per 100,000

• lcriv: log(criv)

• lcrip: log(crip)

• gcriv: lcriv - lcriv_1

• gcrip: lcrip - lcrip_1

• y81: =1 if year == 81

• y82:

• y83:

• y84:

• y85:

• y86:

• y87:

• y88:

• y89:

• y90:

• y91:

• y92:

• y93:

• ag0_14: prop. pop. 0 to 14 yrs

• ag15_17: prop. pop. 15 to 17 yrs

• ag18_24: prop. pop. 18 to 24 yrs

• ag25_34: prop. pop. 25 to 34 yrs

• incpc: per capita income, nominal

• polpc: police per 100,000 residents

• gincpc: log(incpc) - log(incpc_1)

• gpolpc: lpolpc - lpolpc_1

• cag0_14: change in ag0_14

• cag15_17: change in ag15_17

• cag18_24: change in ag18_24

• cag25_34: change in ag25_34

• cunem: change in unem

• cblack: change in black

• cmetro: change in metro

• pris: prison pop. per 100,000

• lpris: log(pris)

• gpris: lpris - lpris[_n-1]

• final1: =1 if fnl dec on litig, curr yr

• final2: =1 if dec on litig, prev 2 yrs

Used in Text

pages 573-574

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(prison)