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The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
Barbarino, Alessandro; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We estimate the "incapacitation effect" on crime using variation in Italian prison population driven by eight … simultaneity of crime and prisoners as in Levitt (1996) and, in addition, use the national character of the pardons to separately … identify incapacitation from changes in deterrence. The elasticity of total crime with respect to incapacitation is between -20 …
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …
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Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555772
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The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
Kuhn, Peter J.; Kooreman, Peter; Soetevent, Adriaan R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors. Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466442
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
Belzil, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...
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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but...
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Skill, Strategy and Passion : An Empirical Analysis of Soccer
Palomino, F.A.; Rigotti, L.; Rustichini, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998
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Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846-1847
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and confounding issues. Methods: This paper investigates whether...
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
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