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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
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Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
Lochner, Lance - 2011
market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130984
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Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other than Cognitive Ability : A Review of the Intervention Literature
Hill, Patrick L. - 2011
Research on the causes of delinquency has a long research history, often with an undue focus on how cognitive ability serves as the main predictor of delinquent activity. The current review examines interventions that focus on psychological factors other than cognitive ability, and discusses how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131494
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A Time-Series Analysis of Crime and Drug Use in New York City
Corman, Hope - 2010
This report summarizes the results of a project which investigated the time series interrelationships between crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135310
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Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines
Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2010
A long theoretical literature in economics addresses the heavy reliance of the U.S. criminal justice system on very expensive forms of punishment - prison - when cheaper alternatives - such as fines and other sanctions - are available. This paper analyzes the role of fines as a criminal sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137008
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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials
Anwar, Shamena - 2010
This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138088
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A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2012
therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk … pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine … limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116782
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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118247
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State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities : Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing
Knight, Brian G. - 2011
in the context of the gun trafficking market. Using gun tracing data, which identify the source state for crime guns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119952
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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 deterrent effect of the adoption and implementation of death penalty statutes. The empirical literature, however, has failed to achieve consensus. A fundamental problem is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120198