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Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime : A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
Nese, Annamaria - 2016
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832585
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Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2018
Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910741
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selectionbiases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by thequestionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactiveexperiments and representative...
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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Janke, Katharina - 2013
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an … about personal safety co-move with police recorded violent crime. To identify the causal effect of recorded violent crime on … increase in crime – the 2011 England riots – to identify the causal impact of a large exogenous crime shock on physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077295
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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012
program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
Bisschop, Paul - 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 opening of these zones was not in response to changes in crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022661
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Roads Leading to Self-Employment : Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups
Blumberg, Boris F. - 2015
This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016338
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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2010
presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime …
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