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Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

Anderson, D. Mark - 2012

adolescents who suffer from depression face a substantially increased probability of engaging in property crime. We find little … evidence that adolescent depression predicts the likelihood of engaging in violent crime or the selling of illicit drugs. Our … estimates imply that the lower-bound economic cost of property crime associated with adolescent depression is about 219 million …

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Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

Anderson, D. Mark - 2013

changes in troop levels on violent crime in El Paso County, where Fort Carson is located. Our results suggest that never … relationship between the number of previously deployed units and violent crime are generally small and statistically insignificant …

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Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Violent Crime

Anderson, D. Mark - 2014

the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 … drinking establishments is associated with a 4 percent increase in violent crime. Reduced-form estimates suggest that … violent crime …

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The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2021

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Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938

Anderson, D. Mark - 2019

According to Troesken (2004), efforts to purify municipal water supplies at the turn of the 20th century dramatically improved the relative health of blacks. There is, however, little empirical evidence to support the Troesken hypothesis. Using city-level data published by the U.S. Bureau of the...

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