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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in … should have their license suspended for one month. My regression discontinuity design exploits the quasi-random assignment of … license suspensions caused by the 365-days cut-off and shows that 1-month license suspensions lower the probability of …
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Wheeling into School and Out of Crime : Evidence from Linking Driving Licenses to Minimum Academic Requirements
Barua, Rashmi - 2016
Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have set minimum academic requirements for high school students to apply for and retain their driving licenses. These laws popularly known as "No Pass No Drive" (NPND), encourage teenagers with a preference for driving to stay in school beyond the...
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License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Keum, Daniel - 2020
Expanding unemployment insurance (UI) not only reduces the burden for the unemployed but also the moral cost of layoffs to firms and their managers. Using staggered expansions of UI across US states, we show that expanding UI leads to larger layoffs in firms experiencing negative economic...
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