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showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime …
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We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal activities. We exploit the random assignment of young men to military service in Argentina through a draft lottery to identify this causal effect. Using a unique set of administrative...
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, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply the model to crime and study the conditions under which agents would … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external …
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We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...
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Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its “neighbouring” effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational … have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or …
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that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution …
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This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la...
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shows that, depending on the relative damage inflicted by the two industries on the environment, it is possible that the …
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&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with …
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Since oil is a non-renewable resource with a high environmental impact, and its most common use is to produce combustibles for electricity, reliable methods for modelling electricity consumption can contribute to a more rational employment of this hydrocarbon fuel. In this paper we apply the...
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