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Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent,...

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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …. The empirical pattern of beliefs within countries is consistent with this explanation: people who perceive corruption to … government in economic matters). Finally, we present a model explaining the corruption-left connection. It exploits the fact that …

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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation

Gan, Li; Williams, Roberton C. Williams III; Wiseman, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate...

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Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime

Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

Previous empirical studies have typically uncovered little evidence that police reduce crime. One problem with those studies is a failure to adequately deal with the simultaneity between police and crime: while police may or may not reduce crime, there is little doubt that expenditures on police...

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Disclosure by Politicians

Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

. Disclosure is more extensive in richer and more democratic countries. Disclosure is correlated with lower perceived corruption …

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Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

Donohue, John J.; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Donohue and Levitt (2001) present a number of analyses that suggest a causal link between legalized abortion and reductions in crime almost two decades later when the cohorts exposed to legalized abortion reach their peak crime years. Joyce (2003) challenges that finding. In this paper, we...

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Commercial Policy in a Predatory World

Anderson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Mutual causation of predation and trade induces novel effects of commercial policy in this paper. The model can explain trade volume responses to market widening initiatives that are otherwise puzzlingly 'too big' or 'too small'. Efficient commercial policy (broadly defined) depends crucially on...

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Why Is There More Crime in Cities?

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Sacerdote, Bruce - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

Crime rates are much higher in big cities than in either small cities or rural areas, and this situation has been relatively pervasive for several centuries. This paper attempts to explain this connection by using victimization data, evidence from the NLSY on criminal behavior and the Uniform...

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Juvenile Crime and Punishment

Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Over the last two decades the punitiveness of the juvenile justice system has declined" substantially relative to the adult courts. During that same time period juvenile violent crime" rates have grown almost twice as quickly as adult crime rates. This paper examines the degree to" which those...

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Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings

Kling, Jeffrey Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospects of individuals after their release from prison. I utilize a variety of research designs including controlling for observable factors and using instrumental variables for incarceration length...

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