This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data …-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, we find a … strong evidence for females that criminal victimization hurts, but hurts less if the crime rate on our reference group is …

Social interactions provide a set of incentives for regulating individual behavior. Chief among these is stigma, the … context of undertaking criminal acts. Stigma is a flow cost of uncertain duration which varies negatively with the number of … individual chooses the behavior that, if detected, is stigmatized. The comparative static analysis of stigma costs differs from …

reduction in rural areas. This paper reviews contemporary empirical and conceptual thinking on the economics of diversity, non …

participate in non-farm rural enterprise and employment opportunities. We place emphasis on the diversity and diversification of …

differential bias. The obvious strategy of hiring ethnically diverse forensic workers will not work. “Us vs. Them” thinking is an …

, which we call the 'consumers' consumption function', models the aggregate effect of the millions of independent decisions of … individual consumers to divide their disposable income between consumption expenditures and savings. This function is … Czechoslovakia showed the 'consumers' consumption function' to be again linear in form but different from the Western …