Zimmerman, Paul R. - In: Journal of Applied Economics VII (2004) May, pp. 163-193
capital punishment. Particular attention is paid to problems of endogeneity bias arising from the non-random assignment of … structural estimates of the deterrent effect of capital punishment are likely to be downward biased due to the influence of … year on average. Finally, the results also suggest that the announcement effect of capital punishment, as opposed to the …