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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221209
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437195
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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries
Koopmans, Ruud - 2014
localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429801
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Local business taxation and competition for capital : the choice of the tax rate
Büttner, Thiess - 1998
This paper discusses how local tax rates of the business tax are set when communities compete for capital as a mobile factor. In a theoretical model communities provide public inputs financed by a tax on capital income in order to maximize a general objective function, which includes residents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621715
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779665
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Crime and immigration : evidence from large immigrant waves
Bell, Brian; Fasani, Francesco; Machin, Stephen - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969993
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Gov-arrrgh-nance : Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
Groot, Olaf J. de; Shortland, Anja - 2010
a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267842
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Teen births keep American crime high
Hunt, Jennifer - 2003 - This Draft - March 2003
assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …
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Crime, compulsory schooling laws and education
Bell, Brian; Costa, Rui; Machin, Stephen - 2015
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Crime and immigration : new evidence from England and Wales
Jaitman, Laura; Machin, Stephen - 2013
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