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Conscription and military service : do they result in future violent and non-violent incarcerations and recidivism?

Wang, Xintong; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

Employing nonparametric bounds, we examine the effect of military service on incarceration outcomes using the Vietnam … not strong statistical evidence that the direct effect of the draft increases the incarceration rate for violent offenses … for a particular cohort of draft avoiders, and (ii) military service increases the incarceration rate for violent and …

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The impact of a reentry and aftercare program on recidivism

Cannonier, Colin; Burke, Monica Galloway; Mitchell, Ed - 2020

prison by ex-offenders. Using administrative data within a difference-in-differences design, we find that this social program …

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Law enforcement, social control and organized crime : evidence from local government dismissals in Italy

Cingano, Federico; Tonello, Marco - 2020

related to the activity of organized crime, as homicide, extortion, drug-trafficking or usury. Petty crimes are estimated to …, the signaling role of the policy, and other forms of social control) rather than induced by organized crime itself. …

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Greater US gun ownership, lethality and murder rates : analysis and policy proposals

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2019

This paper examines the US gun-related murder (GM) rate and places it in an international perspective. The data show that the US GM rate is 27 times the average rate for 22 other developed countries (ODC). Its gun ownership rate is 5.4 times that of ODC and the murder rate per gun is 5 times...

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The #MeToo movement and judges' gender gap in decisions

Cai, Xiqian; Chen, Shuai; Cheng, Zhengquan - 2024

Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually decreasing. This study examines the effect of the #MeToo movement on judges' gender gap in their vital labor market outcome-judicial decisions on randomly assigned legal cases in...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

of its influence through migration and intermarriage, and black incarceration emerges as a powerful mediator. By matching …

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Health economics of genetic distance

Jelnov, Pavel - 2020

In this note, I address the trade-off between children's health and parental preference toward similarity with children. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children's health problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a...

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Sex ratio and global sodomy law reform in the post-WWII era

Chang, Simon - 2020

This paper studies the role of population sex ratio, i.e. ratio of men to women, in the global wave of sodomy law reform in the post-WWII era. Using a global survey, this paper first finds that men are more homophobic than women and such pattern has persisted across countries and time. With a...

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The effect of repeated lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic on UK mental health outcomes

Lindley, Joanne; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2021

This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK, starting from the early restrictions in April 2020, and covering three subsequent lockdowns, up until March 2021. It also considers three aspects of mental health; that is 'anxiety and...

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