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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

The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's records, we examine...

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Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants : An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act

Bjerk, David - 2016

The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years. A primary goal of this legislation was to lessen the harshness of sentences for...

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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

Joffily, Mateus - 2011

punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available …

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David - 2012

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to … their actual punishment level. We find that threats increase the level of contributions significantly. Efficiency is … punishment leads to lower threats, cooperation and welfare, restoring them to levels equal to or below the levels attained in the …

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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Cockx, Bart - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Theft and Deterrence

Harbaugh, William T. - 2011

We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...

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Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Xiao, Erte - 2006

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …

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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017

recidivating within a year by 20 percent. This is largely a specific deterrence effect driven by the punishment itself and not by …

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Fighting Corruption in Education : What Works and Who Benefits?

Borcan, Oana - 2015

fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats … monitoring increased the effectiveness of the punishment threats. Estimating the heterogeneous impact for students of different …

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