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Violent Crimes in Rural U.S. States Mainly the number of aggressive crimes has risen. Economists from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (USA) and Ural Federal University (UrFU, Russia) came to this conclusion. The outcomes of the research are published in The Extractive Industries and Society.
The scientists studied utilizes panel data from different sources and included all states in US from 1999 to 2015. They made some comparisons pertaining to the performance before 2007 and after 2007, when the shale boom took place.
Scientists made the dependent variable recovered from the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research data, Measures of Income Inequality database, State-level employment database, Annual State-Level Measures of Human Capital Attainment database, from the data of the Federal Bureau of Investigation s website.
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