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Do surveillance cameras affect unruly behavior?: a close look at grandstands
Priks, Mikael - 2008
This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...
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School and Crime
Jones, Todd R.; Karger, Ezra - 2023
a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10–17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …
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Covid-19 and Pro-Sociality: How Do Donors Respond to Local Pandemic Severity, Increased Salience, and Media Coverage?
Adena, Maja; Harke, Julian - 2022
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable appeals were updated to include a reference to COVID-19. Did donors increase their giving in response to such changes? In order to answer these questions, we conducted a...
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Managing Households' Expectations with Salient Economic Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2019
The empirical effectiveness of economic policies that operate theoretically through similar channels differs substantially. We document this fact by comparing an easy-to-grasp expectations-based policy, unconventional fiscal policy, with a policy whose implications are harder to understand by...
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Neighborhood effects on secondary school performance of Latino and African American youth : evidence from a natural experiment in Denver
Galster, George C.; Santiago, Anna; Stack, Lisa; … - In: Journal of urban economics 93 (2016), pp. 30-48
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Selective Outmigration and the Estimation of Immigrants' Earnings Profiles
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2014
This chapter begins by documenting that temporary migrations are not only very common, but that outmigration of immigrants is selective both in terms of migrants' individual characteristics and their economic outcomes. We then examine the problems that arise when estimating immigrants' earnings...
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2014
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
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Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida
Breining, Sanni; Doyle, Joseph; Figlio, David N.; … - 2017
adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …
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Measuring Quality for Use in Incentive Schemes: The Case of "Shrinkage" Estimators
Mehta, Nirav - 2018
Researchers commonly “shrink” raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation’s statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility-maximizing decisionmaker across common asymmetric information environments. I develop...
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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households
Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2018
We revisit the prominent finding that women’s incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of their partner. So far, this bunching has been explained by couple formation or couples’ labor market decisions. We propose an additional mechanism: income misreporting in...
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