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Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both genders at 16 and 9% (15%) for males (females) at 18. These results are...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series of speeding transgressions within 365 days should have their license suspended for one month. My...
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What's Another Day? The Effects of Wait Time for Substance Abuse Treatment on Health-Care Utilization, Employment and Crime
Williams, Jenny; Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line - 2022
-care utilization, employment and crime for patients who enter outpatient treatment for cannabis use disorder. Confounding due to … treatment and increasing crime both before and after treatment begins. Together, these findings suggest that waiting times to …
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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
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How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the United States. Research shows that mass shootings have significant detrimental effects on the direct victims and their families. However, relatively little is known about the...
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228300
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013
play important roles in the parental selection-crime of children relationship. Finally, results for siblings support a …
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Small Children, Big Problems: Childbirth and Crime
Britto, Diogo; Rocha, Roberto Hsu; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2024
at least six years and can explain at least 5% of the overall male crime rate. Domestic violence within the family also … increase in fathers' crime stands in sharp contrast with previous evidence from developed countries, where childbirth is …, we provide novel evidence that access to maternity benefits largely offsets the increase in crime by fathers after …
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