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Social assistance and refugee crime
Auer, Daniel; Slotwinski, Michaela; Ahrens, Achim; … - 2024
Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514925
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Voters' response to public policies : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017 - First Version: November 2016
. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781786
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Facts or ideology : what determines the results of econometric estimates of the deterrence effect of death penalty? ; a meta-analysis
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013
Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that individual authors persistently claim to have found solid evidence in one or the other direction raises two questions. Firstly, what are the causes for these different results? Do...
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Marginal deterrence at work
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2017
penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723411
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Birth order and delinquency : evidence from Denmark and Florida
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Doyle, Joseph J.; Figlio, … - 2017
adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602688
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Hold your fire! : influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the US
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
Objective: This paper considers the influence of female legislators on gun legislation across US states. Females have behavioral differences from males and likely different exposure to gun-related violence. Method: Using data from 1991-2020, we econometrically estimate the drivers of gun...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322052
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519915
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237753
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and the criminal activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013
that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199688
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Immigration, regional conditions, and crime : evidence from an allocation policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509654