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The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes
Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper uses data from 700+ felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results imply that prosecutors are more likely to use their peremptory challenges to exclude younger members of the jury pool,...
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The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Studies using data from the early 1990s suggested that while the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeded in redistributing benefits from individuals with high earnings to individuals with low earnings, it was much less successful in redistributing benefits from households with high...
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Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
Lavy, Victor Chaim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
paper I examine how individual performance in a real work place is affected by a competitive environment and by its gender … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female … male and female teachers or by the type of competitive environment in terms of gender mix of the participants. As for …
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Owens, Emily G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In 2001, amendments to the Higher Education Act made people convicted of drug offenses ineligible for federal financial aid for up to two years after their conviction. Using rich data on educational outcomes and drug charges in the NLSY 1997, we show that this law change had a large negative...
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Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The controversies surrounding gun control policies have recently moved to the forefront of public's attention in the United States and elsewhere. Since 2005, eighteen states in the United States have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person...
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The Effect of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Use on Crime: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions and Health Insurance Parity Mandates
Wen, Hefei; Hockenberry, Jason M.; Cummings, Janet R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We examine the effect of increasing the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment rate on reducing violent and property crime rates, based on county-level panels of SUD treatment and crime data between 2001 and 2008 across the United States. To address the potential endogeneity of the SUD treatment...
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Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine
Cheng, Cheng; Hoekstra, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed laws that make it easier to use lethal force in self-defense. Elements of these laws include removing the duty to retreat in places outside of one's home, adding a presumption of reasonable belief of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951296
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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...
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The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law %u2013 the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of our...
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