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One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …
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changes in troop levels on violent crime in El Paso County, where Fort Carson is located. Our results suggest that never … relationship between the number of previously deployed units and violent crime are generally small and statistically insignificant …
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commit crime by about two percentage points for juveniles but has no impact on damaging property. The results indicate that … between siblings and twins indicate that drug use has a significant impact on the propensity to commit crime. We find that the … inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …
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the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find …
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This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i … the tendency for individuals to stay home after a terror attack further increases the costs of crime. …
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beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …
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measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …
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crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …
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Genau wie die Sorge den Arbeitsplatz zu verlieren oder schwer zu erkranken, gehört auch die Furcht, Opfer einer Straftat zu werden, zu den größten Ängsten der Deutschen. Wohlstandsindikatoren, die als Alternative zum BIP diskutiert werden, beinhalten daher nicht nur Arbeitslosigkeit und den...
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Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
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