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Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers … could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also … trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets. The expansion of government programs may further attract attacks to …
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Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking …
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There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
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We examine the ability of policymakers to stimulate household borrowing and spending during the Great Recession by reducing banks' cost of funds. Using panel data on 8.5 million U.S. credit card accounts and 743 credit limit regression discontinuities, we estimate the marginal propensity to...
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This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violent crime in the USA. Although qualitative …-level data, we find that the percentage of slaves in the population in 1860 is linked with violent crime in 2000. This result is … specific to violent crime, robust to instrumenting for slavery and varying the approach to missing crime data, and not driven …
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Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
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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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penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …
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adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …
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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...
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