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Tax evasion and economic crime : empirical evidence for Italy
Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2015
crime particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334238
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Does tax evasion affect economic crime?
Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2018
crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814715
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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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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581336
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Weeding out the dealers? : the economics of cannabis legalization
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice; Perrault, Tiffanie - 2020
We model consumer choices for cannabis in a risky environment and determine the supply of cannabis under prohibition and legalization. While introducing a legal market reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis consumption. We show that this trade-off can be overcome by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304299
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Access to guns in the heat of the moment : more restrictive gun laws mitigate the effect of temperature on violence
Colmer, Jonathan; Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2023
Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures increase violent behavior. In this paper, we consider whether restricting the concealed carry of firearms mitigates or exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306873
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Does legalization of sunday alcohol sales increase crime?
Lee, Jungtaek; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014
this policy change on crime trends in seven states using data from FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431292
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Broadband internet : an information superhighway to sex crime?
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - 2012
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on … potential offenders and victims, and a direct effect on sex crime propensity. To investigate the importance of these mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571218
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Deterrence or backlash? : arrests and the dynamics of domestic violence
Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023
, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486081
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Structural econometric estimation of the basic reproduction number for Covid-19 across U.S. states and selected countries
Johnsson, Ida; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yang, Cynthia Fan - 2023
This paper proposes a structural econometric approach to estimating the basic reproduction number (R0) of Covid-19. This approach identifies R0 in a panel regression model by filtering out the effects of mitigating factors on disease diffusion and is easy to implement. We apply the method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364977