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Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...

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Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea; Maggi, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a number of potential explanations for this fact: different...

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Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach

Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration. Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline...

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Why are Immigrants' Incarceration Rates so Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation

Butcher, Kristin F.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that particularly increased punishment of criminal aliens. In fact, immigrants have much lower institutionalization (incarceration) rates than the native born - on the order of one-fifth the rate of...

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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News

Schneider, Martin; Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies the distribution of employment growth when firms adjust asymmetrically to dispersed but correlated signals. If hiring decisions respond more to bad news than to good news, both aggregate conditional volatility ("macro-volatility") and the cross sectional dispersion of...

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Contracts and the Division of Labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We develop a tractable framework for the analysis of the relationship between contractual incompleteness, technological complementarities, and technology adoption. In our model a firm chooses its technology and investment levels in contractible activities by suppliers of intermediate inputs....

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Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment

Rebitzer, James B.; Nagin, Daniel; Sanders, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Economic models of incentives in employment relationships are based on a specific theory of motivation. Employees are … investigate the 'rational cheater model' using data from a double-blind field experiment that allows us to observe the effect of … experimentally-induced variations in monitoring on employee opportunism. The experiment is unique in that it occurs in the context of …

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Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture....

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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

Rees, Daniel I.; Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

While at least a dozen state legislatures in the United States have recently considered bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government is intensifying its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization...

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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Ajzenman, Nicolás; Galiani, Sebastian; Seira, Enrique - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This is the first paper to study the economic effects of drug-trafficking organization violence. We exploit the manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug-related homicides on house prices. We use an...

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