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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Katz, Lawrence F.; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate to lower-poverty areas reduces arrests among female youth for … violent and property crimes, relative to a control group. For males the offer to relocate reduces arrests for violent crime …, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number …
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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity
Katz, Lawrence F.; Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that 10-15 years...
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Problems in determining the optimal use of road safety measures
Elvik, Rune - In: Research in Transportation Economics 47 (2014) C, pp. 27-36
This paper discusses some problems in determining the optimal use of road safety measures. The first of these problems is how best to define the baseline option, i.e. what will happen if no new safety measures are introduced. The second problem concerns choice of a method for selection of...
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Der Mangel an Spenderorganen – Ursachen und Loesungsmoeglichkeiten aus oekonomischer Sicht
Breyer, Friedrich; Klient, Hartmut - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 227 (2007) 5+6, pp. 466-484
There is an increasing shortage of human organ transplants in Germany. This paper aims at understanding the reasons for that shortage and discusses various ways to alleviate it by changing the rules of donation and procurement. In particular we consider creating adequate incentives for hospitals...
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Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment
Katz, Lawrence F.; Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Liebman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper examines the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the well-being of low-income families, using evidence from the Moving To Opportunity (MTO) program in which eligibility for a housing voucher was determined by random lottery. Applicants in high poverty public...
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Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Katz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the Moving to Opportunity program. Four to seven years after random assignment, families offered vouchers lived in...
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Do Job Search Rules and Reemployment Services Reduce Insured Unemployment?
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
This paper summarizes state unemployment insurance job search policies based on a recent survey of states by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies. It then reviews research results on the effects of reemployment services on durations of insured unemployment. The paper documents...
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects
Ashenfelter, Orley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...
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The Health Costs of Inaction with Respect to Air Pollution
Scapecchi, Pascale - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008
How much does the environment affect human health? Is air pollution shortening our lives and those of our children? These questions are fundamental to environmental policies. Air pollution is a major environmental health threat in OECD countries, contributing to a number of illnesses, such as...
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