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Partially identified treatment effects under imperfect compliance: the case of domestic violence
Siddique, Zahra - 2009
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...
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Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - 2021
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause significant short-term reductions in all arrest types, with the...
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Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings
Celislami, Elda; Kastoryano, Stephen; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2023
Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the underreporting of police killings. Our results show...
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Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths
Cunningham, Jamein; Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob - 2021
Do collective bargaining rights for law enforcement result in more civilian deaths at the hands of the police? Using an event-study design, we find that the introduction of duty to bargain requirements with police unions has led to a significant increase in non-white civilian deaths at the hands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597354
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Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence
Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008460591
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Medical marijuana laws and teen marijuana use
Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2012
While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal … purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal … officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana encourages teenagers to use marijuana and have targeted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327243
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"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Le, Trinh - 2013
early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana … in families with a history of welfare receipt. The relationships between marijuana use and both high school completion … and achieving a university entrance score appear to stem from selectivity into the use of marijuana. In contrast, early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333193
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Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Madio, Leonardo; Principe, Francesco - 2020
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207719
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Persistent Marijuana Use: Evidence from the NLSY
Hansen, Jörgen; Davalloo, Golnaz - 2023
We analyze persistence in marijuana consumption utilizing data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377349
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals' nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...
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