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recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market prospects expect a significantly higher rate of future recidivism … prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …
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's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … further criminal behavior. For previously employed individuals, while there is no effect on recidivism, there is a lasting … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random …
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Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental data from male rural-urban migrants prison inmates and...
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Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
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. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their … employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school …
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I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing...
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employment and earnings for those with criminal records …
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This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment … for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findingsare that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects... …
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, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …
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double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … which people gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing criminal acts. As zero-tolerance keeps …
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