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Responses to more severe punishment in the courtrooms : evidence from truth-in-sentencing laws
Tsuchimoto, Fusako; Dušek, Libor - 2009
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Criminal sentencing in ninetenth century Pennsylvania
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2008
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Facts or ideology : what determines the results of econometric estimates of the deterrence effect of death penalty? ; a meta-analysis
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013
Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that …
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A Note on Death Penalty Executions and Business Cycles in U.S. Federal States : Is There Any Nexus?
Süssmuth, Bernd - 2004
Only legal facts should affect the application of the death penalty. This maxim is manifested in the U.S. constitution and stipulated by the Supreme Court. With regard to extra-legal economic factors, it has been applied to practice from 1950 to 1990 with the exception of two states: For...
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Essays on inequality and finance
Dwarkasing, Mintra - 2017
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Duration of unemployment in States, 2007–09
Anderson, Sally L. - In: Monthly labor review 133 (2010) 12, pp. 36-39
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Response to Baker and Fugh-Berman's critique of my paper, "Why has longevity increased more in some states than in others?"
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2009
study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period … that I studied, and that my estimates are completely insensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of infant mortality …
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A Few Variables Capture over 70% of State-Level Variance in U.S. COVID Deaths
Sill, Joe - 2021
A U.S. state-level analysis of factors associated with COVID-19 deaths reveals inequality (as defined by the Gini coefficient) to be far and away the strongest single-variable predictor, capturing 40% of vari ance in COVID deaths and 49% of variance in all-cause excess deaths since the start of...
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Vaccination Rates and COVID Outcomes across U.S. States
Barro, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Rates of COVID deaths and cases differ markedly across U.S. states, as do rates of vaccination. This study uses cross-state regressions to assess impacts of vaccinations on COVID outcomes. A number of familiar issues concerning cross-sectional regressions arise, including omitted variables,...
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Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? : local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238061