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Avoiding Convictions : Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders
Mueller-Smith, Michael - 2017
the implementation of a penal code reform; in 2007 deferral rates increased by 22 percentage points the day after the …
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Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates : A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach
Kovandzic, Tomislav Victor; Schaffer, Mark E.; Kleck, Gary - 2021
This paper uses a "local average treatment effect" (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly address the problems of endogeneity, proxy...
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VC - A Method for Estimating Time-Varying Coefficients in Linear Models
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2020
This paper describes a moments estimator for a standard state-space model with coefficients generated by a random walk. A penalized least squares estimation is linked to the GLS (Aitken) estimates of the corresponding linear model with time-invariant parameters. The VC estimates are moments...
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Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
Bivariate duration data frequently arise in economics, biostatistics and other areas. In "bivariate frailty models", dependence between the frailties (i.e., unobserved determinants) induces dependence between the durations. Using notions of quadrant dependence, we study restrictions that this...
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The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime
Caceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2021
Crime Report program for the period 1965-1998 and differences in the timing in the introduction of the reform, we find that …In this paper, we evaluate the impact of unilateral divorce on crime. First, using crime rates from the FBI's Uniform … unilateral divorce has a positive impact on violent crime rates, with an 8% to 12% average increase for the period under …
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Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2021
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
Sarnikar, Supriya - 2007
females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the …
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What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us About Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?
Bjerk, David - 2018
We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or implicit racial biases in the DNA exoneration process (including no bias), our results suggest the...
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Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making : The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court
Mindock, Maxwell - 2019
We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between...
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Joint Custody in the Italian Courts
de Blasio, Guido - 2013
the formal (legal) assignment of joint custody, the reform envisaged very little judge discretion. With reference to the … applied by the judges. Compared to the pre-reform regime, the share of sole legal custody assignments to the mother …
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