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The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper uses data from 700+ felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results imply that prosecutors are more likely to use their peremptory challenges to exclude younger members of the jury pool,...

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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Studies using data from the early 1990s suggested that while the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeded in redistributing benefits from individuals with high earnings to individuals with low earnings, it was much less successful in redistributing benefits from households with high...

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Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers

Lavy, Victor Chaim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

paper I examine how individual performance in a real work place is affected by a competitive environment and by its gender … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female … male and female teachers or by the type of competitive environment in terms of gender mix of the participants. As for …

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Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent,...

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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation

Gan, Li; Williams, Roberton C. Williams III; Wiseman, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate...

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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

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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Market Wages and Youth Crime

Grogger, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Youth crime is widespread. To study the effect of market wages on youth crime, I analyze a time-allocation model in which consumers face parametric wages and diminishing marginal returns to crime. Under these assumptions, an individual who works will commit crime if the returns to the first hour...

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Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving

Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Traditional economic models of criminal behavior have straightforward predictions: raising the expected cost of crime via apprehension probabilities or punishments decreases crime. I test the effect of harsher punishments on deterring driving under the influence (DUI). In this setting,...

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Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation

Cook, Philip J; Ludwig, Jens; Samaha, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The "core right" established in D.C. vs. Heller (2008) is to keep an operable handgun in the home for self-defense purposes. If the Court extends this right to cover state and local jurisdictions, the result is likely to include the elimination of the most stringent existing regulations - such...

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