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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation

Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …

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Vaccination Rates and COVID Outcomes across U.S. States

Barro, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Rates of COVID deaths and cases differ markedly across U.S. states, as do rates of vaccination. This study uses cross-state regressions to assess impacts of vaccinations on COVID outcomes. A number of familiar issues concerning cross-sectional regressions arise, including omitted variables,...

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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - 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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Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion : Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors

Bushway, Shawn D. - 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 Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment : A Question of Life and Death

Ehrlich, Isaac - 1973

punishment, a reexamination of which, in both theory and practice, is the object of the paper …

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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...

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As the Wind Blows : The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality

Anderson, Michael L. - 2015

adult mortality. This project estimates the impact of long-term exposure to air pollution on mortality by leveraging quasi … the effect of downwind exposure to highway-generated pollutants on the age-specific mortality rate by using bearing to the … a highway increases mortality among individuals 75 and older by 3.6 to 6.8 percent. These estimates are robust and …

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Do Collateral Sanctions Work? Evidence from the IRS' Passport Certification and Revocation Process

Organ, Paul R.; Ruda, Alex; Slemrod, Joel; Turk, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Penalties for tax evasion are typically financial, but many jurisdictions also utilize collateral sanctions that deny access to some government-provided service. To learn about the effectiveness of such penalties, we examine a U.S. policy restricting passport access for taxpayers with...

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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? An Analysis of Prisoners on Death Row in the United States

Argys, Laura - 2003

Using data on the entire population of prisoners under a sentence of death in the U.S. between 1977 and 1997, this paper investigates the probability of being executed on death row in any given year, as well as the probability of commutation when reaching the end of death row. The analyses...

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Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented on juries. Using quasi-random variation in those called for jury duty...

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