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Incarceration and crime : evidence from California's public safety realignment reform

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2013

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

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Crime, the criminal justice system, and socioeconomic inequality

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2016

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …

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The effect of sentencing reform on crime rates : evidence from California's proposition 47

Domínguez, Patricio; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2019

We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little … evidence of an impact on violent crime rates in the state. Once changes in offense definitions and reporting practices in key …

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The effect of sentencing reform on racial and ethnic disparities in involvement with the criminal justice system : the case of California's proposition 47

Lofstrom, Magnus; Martin, Brandon; Raphael, Steven - 2019

approximate 20 percent decline in total property crime arrests, and shifts in the composition of arrests away from felonies …

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State dependence in Canadian welfare participation

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...

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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out-of welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out of welfare?

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 38 (2003) 1, pp. 74-98

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...

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