Sridharan, Sanjeev, "Can Vector- Autoregression Methodology Help in an Understanding of the Casual Dynamics of the Unemployment- Crime Relationships?", 1996
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We apply a dynamic time-series method called Vector-autoregression (VAR) to studying the dynamic linkage between unemployment and crime rates in Virginia. The promise of the VAR methodology lies in its ability to provide information on the dynamic and the feedback properties in systems of variables.