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Recent Immigrants: Unexpected Implications for Crime and Incarceration
Butcher, Kristin F.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
Among 18-40 year old men in the United States, immigrants are less likely to be institutionalized than the native-born, and much less likely to be institutionalized than native-born men with similar demographic characteristics. Furthermore, earlier immigrants are more likely to be...
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Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930
Moehling, Carolyn M.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...
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The Articulation Effect of Government Policy: Health Insurance Mandates Versus Taxes
Ericson, Keith Marzilli; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine how the articulation of government policy affects behavior. Our experiment compares a government mandate to purchase health insurance to a financially equivalent tax on the uninsured. Participants report their probability of purchasing health insurance under one of the two...
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Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment
Heller, Sara; Pollack, Harold A.; Ander, Roseanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high-crime … programming participated, with the average participant attending 13 sessions. Program participation reduced violent-crime arrests … monetizes the social costs of crime, the benefit-cost ratio may be as high as 30:1 from reductions in criminal activity alone. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950747
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Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: New Evidence on the Dropout-Crime Nexus
Cook, Philip J; Kang, Songman - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
the legal possibility of dropping out. The "crime" and "dropout" differences are strong but somewhat muted by the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950769
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Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950837
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Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36
Nicosia, Nancy; MacDonald, John M.; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Like other states, minorities are disproportionately represented in the California's state prison system, particularly for drug offenses. Unlike other states, California has had a policy of mandatory diversion to drug treatment for non-violent drug offenders since mid-2001 (Proposition 36)....
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The Effect of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Use on Crime: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions and Health Insurance Parity Mandates
Wen, Hefei; Hockenberry, Jason M.; Cummings, Janet R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
crime rates, based on county-level panels of SUD treatment and crime data between 2001 and 2008 across the United States. To … address the potential endogeneity of the SUD treatment rate with respect to crime rate, we exploit the exogenous variation in … the SUD treatment rate at an average cost of $1.6 billion yields a crime reduction benefit of $2.5 billion to $4.8 billion …
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Predation, Taxation, Investment and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Kapstein, Ethan; Troland, Erin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper explores the relationship between investment and political violence through several possible mechanisms. Investment as a predictor of future violence implies that low private sector investment today provides a robust indicator of high violence tomorrow. "Rent-capture" or predation...
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The Geography of Financial Misconduct
Titman, Sheridan; Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We find that a firm's tendency to engage in financial misconduct increases with the misconduct rates of neighboring firms. This appears to be caused by peer effects, rather than exogenous shocks like regional variation in enforcement. Effects are stronger among firms of comparable size, and...
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