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Organization and information in the fight against crime: An evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Viveiros, Igor - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276725
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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684794
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2013
We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329176
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274674
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Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas - 2016
This paper presents various methods for estimating the size of the shadow economy and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method exists to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy. Because of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479338
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Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Jetter, Michael; Molina, Teresa - 2020
Can democratically elected politicians persuade their constituents to alter policy priorities? With little empirical support for this hypothesis to date, we propose that Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration speech on June 30, 2016 systematically shifted the Filipinos' policy agenda toward prioritizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207708
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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 that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469456
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The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments
Schneider, Friedrich - 2014
This survey presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses and the estimation results. The purpose of the survey is threefold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398282
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Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017
We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744508