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I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb : The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
Iyengar, Radha - 2008
Strong sentences are common "tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in criminal activity. However, the design of such policies often ignores other margins along which individuals interested in participating in crime may adjust. I use California's Three...
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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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Misdemeanor Prosecution
Agan, Amanda Y.; Doleac, Jennifer L.; Harvey, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. So far there has been little empirical evidence to inform policy in this area. In this paper we report the first estimates of the causal effects of misdemeanor...
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Reducing crime and violence : Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
We show that a number of "noncognitive" skills and preferences, including patience and identity, are malleable in adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to eight weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy designed to...
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Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence : An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago
Bhatt, Monica P.; Heller, Sara B.; Kapustin, Max; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized controlled trial (N=2,456) of a community-researcher partnership--the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI Chicago)--which provided 18 months of a supported job alongside...
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Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of the AIDS Epidemic
Kremer, Michael - 1996
Increased HIV risk creates incentives for people with low sexual activity to reduce their activity, but may make high-activity people fatalistic, leading them to reduce their activity only slightly, or actually increase it. If high-activity people reduce their activity by a smaller proportion...
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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Bloom, David E. - 1995
This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the … prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of GDP per capita. Our analysis uses well- established empirical growth models to … control for a variety of factors possibly correlated with AIDS prevalence that might also influence growth. We also account …
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Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids?
Kremer, Michael - 1994
Under asymmetric information about sexual history, sexual activity creates externalities. Abstinence by those with few partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners. Since this increases prevalence among the high activity people who...
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Projecting the Number of New AIDS Cases in the U.S
Bloom, David E. - 1992
This paper reviews the two leading methods used to project the number of AIDS cases: back calculation and extrapolation …. These methods are assessed in light of key features of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and of data on the epidemic; they are also …, often by sizable amounts, the number of AIDS cases in the U.S., especially among homosexual/bisexual males and users of …
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with MTV
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an …
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