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Tobacco Regulation Through Litigation : The Master Settlement Agreement

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement resolved the unprecedented litigation in which the states sought to recoup the cigarette-related Medicaid costs. The litigation was settled through a combination of negotiated regulatory requirements and financial payments of about $250 billion over 25 years....

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty : Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections

Manski, Charles F. - 2011

Researchers have long used repeated cross sectional observations of homicide rates and sanctions to examine the … homicide. This ambiguity is reduced when we impose stronger assumptions, but inferences are sensitive to the maintained … restrictions. Combining the data with some assumptions implies that the death penalty increases homicide, but other assumptions …

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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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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

Andreoni, James - 2011

This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....

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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

We propose a test of bias based upon patterns of judicial errors. We model the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the court is unbiased, the error rate should be independent of...

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When No Bad Deed Goes Punished : Relational Contracting in Ghana Versus the UK

Davies, Elwyn - 2017

Experimental evidence to date supports the double theoretical prediction that parties transacting repeatedly punish bad contractual performance by reducing future offers, and that the threat of punishment disciplines opportunistic breach. We conduct a repeated gift-exchange experiment with...

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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

Ashraf, Nava - 2016

Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the costs of that piping....

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Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline : An Empirical Analysis

Law, Marc T. - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between the characteristics of medical licensing boards and the frequency with which boards discipline physicians. Specifically, we take advantage of variation in the structure of medical licensing boards between 1993 and 2003 to determine the effect of...

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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness

Eren, Ozkan - 2017

This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile punishment on adult criminal recidivism and high school completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a southern U.S. state to the public school...

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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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