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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 …
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The role of electoral incentives for policy innovation : evidence from the U.S. welfare reform
Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2018 - This version: March 19, 2018
We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...
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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments?
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
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Cyclicality of the U.S. safety net : evidence from the 2000s and implications for the COVID-19 crisis
Bitler, Marianne; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Iselin, John - In: National tax journal 73 (2020) 3, pp. 759-779
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The pandemic cash and retail payment behaviour : insights from the future of payments databas
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2023
? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new "Future of Payments" database on retail … countries. We find that card-not-present payments, payment app downloads and the volume of cash in circulation all rose in weeks …
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The effects of exposure to refugees on crime : evidence from the Greek Islands
Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2023
construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822103
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Transit migration and crime evidence from Colombia
Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024
This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both … first study to document a link between transit migration and crime. …
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The engine immobilizer : a non-starter for car thieves
Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim … theft. -- car theft ; government regulation ; crime ; victim precaution …
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