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The effects of pre-trial detention on conviction, future crime, and employment : evidence from randomly assigned judges
Dobbie, Will; Goldin, Jacob; Yang, Crystal - 2016
Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-trial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention tendencies of quasi-randomly assigned bail judges to estimate the causal effects of pre-trial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011578513
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226134
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Lives vs. Livelihoods : The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; Schilbach, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession reduces the average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486202