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Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …
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We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effect of fathers’ draft eligibility on children’s propensity to engage in risky health behaviors during adolescence using the NLSY97. Draft eligibility increases measures of substance...
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to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …
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reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare … burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide …, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of …
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late 1970s and early 1980s is responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s, and may cause further … declines into the future. The elasticity of violent crime with respect to lead is estimated to be approximately 0.8 …
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child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across …
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The association between legalized abortion and crime remains a contentious finding with major implications for social … convincing test of abortion and crime should be based on an exogenous change in abortion that had a demonstrable effect on … the effects of abortion on crime over 15 to 20 years of the life of a cohort to lessen the impact of the crack epidemic. I …
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Mutual causation of predation and trade induces novel effects of commercial policy in this paper. The model can explain trade volume responses to market widening initiatives that are otherwise puzzlingly 'too big' or 'too small'. Efficient commercial policy (broadly defined) depends crucially on...
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Statistical risk factor models are often proposed for screening high-risk children to participate in early intervention programs. Recent contributions to the program evaluation literature demonstrate the need for incorporating judgments about relative importance of false positives versus false...
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-criminal type, while past criminal experience raises current criminal activity for both types. Also, the age crime profile peaks at …
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