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Crime and the legalization of recreational marijuana

Dragone, Davide; Prarolo, Giovanni; Paolo Vanin, Paolo; … - 2017

We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime drop. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the adjacent states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we find, combining county-level...

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Street prostitution zones and crime

Bisschop, Paul; Kastoryano, Stephen; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2015

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under different regulation systems. We provide evidence that the...

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International migration intentions and illegal costs : evidence from Africa-to-Europe smuggling routes

Friebel, Guido; Manchin, Miriam; Mendola, Mariapia; … - 2018

Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the Central Mediterranean Route for irregular border - crossing between Libya and Italy. This...

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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The effects of the Dobbs decision on fertility

Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra; Myers, Caitlin K. - 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization sparked the most profound transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on fertility using a pre-registered synthetic...

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Another day, another visit : impact of Arkansas' mandatory waiting period for women seeking an abortion by demographic groups

Altındaǧ, Onur; Joyce, Theodore J. - 2022

Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas...

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Women legislators and economic performance

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...

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Dismissal disputes and endogenous sorting

Garibaldi, Pietro; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015

- work that corresponds with general dismissal legislation, but is sufficiently flexible to accommodate country …-specific legislation. Detailed information from a sample of 2,191 disputes that occurred in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009 is used …

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001

and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction …

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