Choe, Jongmook - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of death penalty. Instead … of using execution rate, this paper uses dummy variables to categorize states into different groups and to compare the … group mean homicide rates. With U.S. state-level panel data for the period 1995 - 2006, this paper fails to find a …