Mendoza, Maria Nimfa F.Borromeo, Elizabeth Y.Lizaso, Shaun Erycka T.2024-10-082024-10-082015-12https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/651Crime and economics, undoubtedly, have significant relationship, as proved by several empirical research conducted decades ago and in the recent years. Since 2009, the Philippine National Police has implemented a new crime reporting system, which is said to be more efficient, thus, largely increasing reported crime rates throughout the years. Generating a conceptual framework to study the relationship of crimes and economics in the Philippine context, this paper aimed to determine to what extent the following economic and deterrence variables are related with the incidence of crimes: income inequality, gross domestic product, unemployment, education, police-to-population ratio, crime clearance efficiency, and police expenditure. Further, the results are utilized for policy-making or assessment purposes which are aimed to reduce crimes in the country. The researchers gathered 2009-2013 panel data with 17 regions and used the Fixed Effects model, the Least Square Dummy Variables model, and Distributed Lag model for each type of crime – against persons and against property. In the fixed effects model, unemployment, gross domestic product, police-to-population ratio, and police expenditure are significantly related with crimes, both against persons and property. Meanwhile, in the LSDV model, regression results show that all regional dummies are statistically significant except for CALABARZON. Importantly, for the distributed lag model, the results showed that increases in crime clearance efficiency significantly decreases both crimes against persons and property.enPhilippinescrimescrime rateeconomicsincome inequalitygross domestic productunemploymenteducationpolice-to-population ratiocrime clearance efficiencypolice expenditureThesis