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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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's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …
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that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social …
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and inequality, crime rates, suicide rates, and test scores. These results are robust to the use of regression …
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correlation reflect a causal relationship? This study seeks to answer the question of whether more guns cause more crime, and … three main sources of endogeneity bias - reverse causality (higher crime rates lead people to acquire guns for self … positive effect on homicide rates: ceteris paribus, more guns do not mean more crime. …
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non-cooperative way how much crime effort they will exert. We show that the Nash equilibrium crime effort of each … criminal who, once removed, leads to the maximum reduction in aggregate crime. We provide a geometric characterization of the … generalizes the key player for a group of criminals of a given size. We finally endogeneize the crime participation decision …
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punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …
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salaries, state revenue, incarceration rates, execution rates, pre-tax incomes and inequality, crime rates, suicide rates, and …
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show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that increases … in youth unemployment induce increases in crime. Using the predicted industrial structure to instrument unemployment, we … show that this effect is causal for burglaries, thefts, and drug offences. To combat crime, it appears thus that all …
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This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
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