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Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Owens, Emily G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In 2001, amendments to the Higher Education Act made people convicted of drug offenses ineligible for federal financial aid for up to two years after their conviction. Using rich data on educational outcomes and drug charges in the NLSY 1997, we show that this law change had a large negative...
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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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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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Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine
Cheng, Cheng; Hoekstra, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
-defense in this way deters crime or, alternatively, increases homicide. To do so, we apply a difference-in-differences research …
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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...
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The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law %u2013 the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of our...
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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
Piehl, Anne Morrison; Bushway, Shawn D.; Owens, Emily G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
There is a debate about whether advisory non-binding sentencing guidelines affect the sentences outcomes of individuals convicted in jurisdictions with this sentencing framework. Identifying the impact of sentencing guidelines is a difficult empirical problem because court actors may have...
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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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Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections
Manski, Charles; Pepper, John V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
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On the Optimal Burden of Proof
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The burden of proof is a central feature of adjudication, and analogues exist in many other settings. It constitutes an important but largely unappreciated policy instrument that interacts with the level of enforcement effort and magnitude of sanctions in controlling harmful activity. Models are...
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