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Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions

Agan, Amanda Y.; Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; Mas, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random order, without requiring input or action from affected individuals. Linking records of...

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Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law

Shavell, Steven - 2003

This paper contains the chapters on public enforcement of law and on criminal law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). By public law enforcement is meant the use of public law enforcement agents -- such as police, tax...

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Heterogeneous and Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the U.S

Boen, Courtney; Bair, Elizabeth; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of two signature state incarceration policies adopted during...

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Judging Judge Fixed Effects

Frandsen, Brigham R. - 2019

We propose a test for the identifying assumptions invoked in designs based on random assignment to one of many "judges.'' We show that standard identifying assumptions imply that the conditional expectation of the outcome given judge assignment is a continuous function with bounded slope of the...

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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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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Competitive Risk Sharing Contracts with One-Sided Commitment

Krueger, Dirk - 2003

This paper analyzes dynamic equilibrium risk sharing contracts between profit-maximizing intermediaries and a large pool of ex-ante identical agents that face idiosyncratic income uncertainty that makes them heterogeneous ex-post. In any given period, after having observed her income, the agent...

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Assessing, Managing, and Financing Extreme Events : Dealing with Terrorism

Kunreuther, Howard - 2003

This paper discusses new challenges we face with terrorism as a catastrophic risk by focusing on risk assessment, risk … management as well as risk financing issues. The special characteristics of terrorism compared with major natural hazards call … for the development of public-private partnerships, as recognized in November 2002 when the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act …

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The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants

Butcher, Kristin F. - 1999

Using data on all new admissions to California state prisons in 1986, 1990, and 1996, we find that the foreign born have a very different offense mix from native-born inmates, with foreigners much more likely to be serving time for drug offenses. We document and discuss many of the substantial...

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The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards

Del Rossi, Alison F. - 2009

This article investigates the determinants of the blockbuster punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. As of the end of 2008, there had been 100 such awards with an average value of $3.0 billion. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in State Farm v. Campbell suggested a single digit upper...

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