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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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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
identify incapacitation from changes in deterrence. The elasticity of total crime with respect to incapacitation is between -20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649824
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The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time … the prison spell. This second result can be hardly reconciled with the specific deterrence hypothesis according to which a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703778
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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence
Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734413
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Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or because it leads to additional arrests of recurrent criminals? This paper provides evidence of a direct link between policing and arrests. During shift changes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156467
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
III, John J. Donohue; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061
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Prison Conditions and Recidivism
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762173
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884312
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Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959534
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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