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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

Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States, although identifying successful interventions for adolescents - particularly males - has proven challenging. This paper reports results from a large randomized controlled trial of an...

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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

Based on administrative data for five cohorts of public school children in North Carolina, we demonstrate that those born just after the cut date for starting school are likely to outperform those born just before in reading and math in middle school, and are less likely to be involved in...

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Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The controversies surrounding gun control policies have recently moved to the forefront of public's attention in the United States and elsewhere. Since 2005, eighteen states in the United States have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person...

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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

-violent drug offenders since mid-2001 (Proposition 36). Using a rich dataset including current and prior criminal charges from 1995 … and Blacks male drug offenders are explained by observable case and criminal justice characteristics. We estimate the … offenders differ considerably on covariates, but by weighting on the inverse of a nonparametric estimate of the propensity score …

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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

We examine the effect of increasing the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment rate on reducing violent and property 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...

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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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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Tekin, Erdal; Gershenson, Seth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...

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