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Does Legalization of Sunday Alcohol Sales Increase Crime?
Lee, Jungtaek; Yörük, Baris K. - CESifo - 2014
this policy change on crime trends in seven states using data from FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS …
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - CESifo - 2015
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals’ nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - CESifo - 2013
that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
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Status Concerns as a Motive for Crime?
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - CESifo - 2013
subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative …-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a higher detection probability and higher sanctions. In addition … theories of crime, namely strain theory. …
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Punishment - and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several …
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The Engine Immobilizer: A Non-Starter for Car Thieves
Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - CESifo - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - CESifo - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2015
authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014
We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first]year...
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