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Poisedness and Propagation : Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City
Johnson, Victoria - 2015
The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel introductions or exogenous perturbations than others. Explaining this relative "poisedness" is essential to understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026791
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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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Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City
Corman, Hope - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We … by exploiting the temporal independence of crime and deterrence in these high-frequency data, and we address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087883
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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
Chalfin, Aaron - 2019
This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment … landscape – street lighting – and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a … reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871155
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Carrots, Sticks and Broken Windows
Corman, Hope; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021
. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235267
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The Effects of Youth Employment on Crime : Evidence from New York City Lotteries
Kessler, Judd B.; Tahamont, Sarah; Gelber, Alexander M.; … - 2022
little-to-no effect of the program on crime during the program but has found decreases in violent and other serious crimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089538
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Moral Hazard and Economies of Scope in Physician Ownership of Complementary Medical Services
Chen, Brian - 2013
When physicians own complementary medical service facilities such as clinical laboratories and imaging centers, they gain financially by referring patients to these service entities. This situation creates an incentive for the physician to exploit the consumers' trust by recommending more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073192
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Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa
Grossman, Gene M. - 2016
The evidence for the United States points to balanced growth despite falling investment-good prices and an elasticity of substitution between capital and labor less than one. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa's theorem to show that the introduction of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001767
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Innovation-Led Transitions in Energy Supply
Lemoine, Derek - 2017
I generalize a benchmark model of directed technical change to allow innovations and factors of production (here energy resources) to be substitutes or complements. I show that a dominant sector is forever locked-in under substitutability but researchers' market incentives can drive a transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955939
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Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting
Agrawal, Mohit - 2018
We extend the control function approach of Altonji and Mansfield (2018) to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909131