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Cross-border spillover: US gun laws and violence in Mexico

Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...

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Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...

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Drawn into violence: Evidence on what makes a criminal from the Vietnam draft lotteries

Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust evidence of effects on violent crimes among...

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Partially identified treatment effects under imperfect compliance: the case of domestic violence

Siddique, Zahra - 2009

policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …

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Family violence and football: The effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior

Card, David Edward; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be …

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Parents' incomes and children's outcomes: a quasi-experiment

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008

cash transfer program have higher levels of education in their young adulthood and a lower incidence of criminality for …

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Is crime contagious?

Ludwig, Jens; Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2006

Understanding whether criminal behavior is contagious is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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Estimating the causal effect of gun prevalence on homicide rates: a local average treatment effect approach

Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to … properly address the problems of endogeneity, proxy validity, or heterogeneity in criminality. We demonstrate that the time … negative deterrent effect of noncriminal gun prevalence. The beneficiaries of the reduced level of violence may include …

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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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