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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...

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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors

Bushway, Shawn D. - 2011

There is a debate about whether advisory non-binding sentencing guidelines affect the sentences outcomes of individuals convicted in jurisdictions with this sentencing framework. Identifying the impact of sentencing guidelines is a difficult empirical problem because court actors may have...

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The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment : A Question of Life and Death

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010

punishment, a reexamination of which, in both theory and practice, is the object of the paper …

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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval - 2020

One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...

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As the Wind Blows : The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality

Anderson, Michael L. - 2015

adult mortality. This project estimates the impact of long-term exposure to air pollution on mortality by leveraging quasi … the effect of downwind exposure to highway-generated pollutants on the age-specific mortality rate by using bearing to the … a highway increases mortality among individuals 75 and older by 3.6 to 6.8 percent. These estimates are robust and …

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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? An Analysis of Prisoners on Death Row in the United States

Argys, Laura M.; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021

Using data on the entire population of prisoners under a sentence of death in the U.S. between 1977 and 1997, this paper investigates the probability of being executed on death row in any given year, as well as the probability of commutation when reaching the end of death row. The analyses...

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Local Deficits and Local Jobs : Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?

Carlino, Gerald A. - 2013

Using a sample of the 48 mainland U.S. states for the period 1973-2009, we study the ability of U.S. states to expand own state employment through the use of state deficit policies. The analysis allows for the facts that U.S. states are part of a wider monetary and economic union with free...

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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Corporation Law and the Shift Toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States

Hilt, Eric - 2015

This paper analyses the general incorporation statutes for manufacturing firms adopted by the American states up to 1860. Prior to the enactment of a general law, a business could only incorporate by obtaining a special act of their state legislature; general statutes facilitated incorporation...

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The Evolution of Bank Supervision : Evidence from U.S. States

Mitchener, Kris James - 2014

We use a novel data set spanning 1820-1910 to examine the origins of bank supervision and assess factors leading to the creation of formal bank supervision across U.S. states. We show that it took more than a century for the widespread adoption of independent supervisory institutions tasked with...

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