Buonanno, Paolo; Raphael, Steven - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2437-65
In August 2006, the Italian government released one-third of the nation's prison inmates via a national collective pardon. We test for a discontinuous break in national crime rates corresponding to the mass release. We also test for the effect of the return of the incarceration rate to its...
