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Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves; Lee, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

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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Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery

Galiani, Sebastian; Rossi, Martín A.; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

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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”Thou shalt not covet ...”: Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

, 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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Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

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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Geographical Distribution of Crime in Italian Provinces: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

Uberti, Teodora Erika; Cracolici, Maria Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

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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E-participation: Social Capital and the Internet

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

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The Transmission of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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The Decision to Migrate and Social Capital: Evidence from Albania

Cattaneo, Cristina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The objective of this paper is to determine whether the participation in social organizations, which are commonly defined as a form of social capital, represents a complement or a substitute with respect to emigration. The nature of the relationship depends on the motivations behind the two...

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