This paper employs a hazard model to analyse the impact of education and two types of prison employment programmes on recidivism over a ten-year period for 4515 prisoners released from Ohio prisons in 1992. Estimations with a Weibull mixture model and propensity score approach provide two means...

Recent interest in convergence raises questions in the history of thought concerning the origins of the concern over convergence. The authors find that, in the classical period, interest in convergence centered around the connection between the growth of neighboring countries and one's own...