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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
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U.S. Safety Net Programs and Early Life Skills Formation : Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study
Bolbocean, Corneliu - 2018
A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452889
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Push and Pull : Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States
Milligan, Kevin - 2017
Disability insurance take-up has expanded substantially in the past twenty years in the United States while shrinking in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the 'push' from weak labor markets versus the 'pull' of more generous benefits. Using an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455276
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Small differences that matter : labor markets and income maintenance in Canada and the United States
Card, David E. (contributor); Card, David E. (ed.);  … - 1993
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Special Purpose Vehicles and Securitization
Gorton, Gary - 2005
Firms can finance themselves on- or off-balance sheet. Off-balance sheet financing involves transferring assets to "special purpose vehicles" (SPVs), following accounting and regulatory rules that circumscribe relations between the sponsoring firm and the SPVs. SPVs are carefully designed to...
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Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards
Keys, Benjamin J. - 2016
Using a dataset covering one quarter of the U.S. general-purpose credit card market, we document that 29% of accounts regularly make payments at or near the minimum payment. We exploit changes in issuers' minimum payment formulas to distinguish between liquidity constraints and anchoring as...
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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Knowles, John - 1999
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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Formal Employment and Organized Crime : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
Khanna, Gaurav - 2019
Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentives. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in … formal-sector employment induces crime. Regression discontinuity estimates show this policy generated reductions in formal …-sector employment and a corresponding spike in organized crime, but no effects on crimes of impulse or opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480147
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime … Reports (UCR), combined with a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we find that PDMPs reduced overall crime by 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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Wandering Astray : Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime
Fu, Chao - 2020
We build and estimate a dynamic model of teenagers' choices of schooling and crime, incorporating four factors that may …
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