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More Guns, More Unintended Consequences : The Effects of Right-to-Carry on Criminal Behavior and Policing in US Cities

Donohue, John J.; Cai, Samuel V.; Bondy, Matthew V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

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The Effect of Pre-Arraignment Legal Representation on Criminal Case Outcomes

Lacoe, Johanna; Fischer, Brett; Raphael, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Low-income individuals arrested on criminal charges face disproportionately high rates of pretrial detention and conviction. We study a novel approach to addressing this inequity: providing low-income individuals with access to legal counsel immediately following their arrest. Focusing on a...

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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants

Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely unexplored consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn...

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Optimal Deterrence, Inequality and the Jean-Valjean Effect

MacLeod, William Bentley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Abstract This paper extends the Becker (1968)-Ehrlich (1973) model of crime to allow for government transfers. Using … in turn allows an integration of a crime model with a standard public finance model. Using King et al. (1988) preferences … that policies undertaken with the intent of deterring crime may, unintuitively, lead to an increase in crime. This provides …

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Does nothing stop a bullet like a job?$bthe effects of income on crime

Ludwig, Jens; Schnepel, Kevin T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Do jobs and income-transfer programs affect crime? The answer depends on why one is asking the question, which shapes … what one means by "crime." Many studies focus on understanding why overall crime rates vary across people, places, and time … understand what to do about the crime problem, the focus will instead be on serious violent crimes, which account for the …

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The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States

Carollo, Nicholas A.; Hicks, Jason F.; Karch, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The analysis of occupational licensing has concentrated largely on its labor market and consumer welfare effects. By contrast, relatively little is known about how occupational licensing laws originated or the key factors in their evolution. In this paper, we study the determinants of U.S....

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Measurement of Telework During and Shortly After the Pandemic—an On-the-Ground Perspective

Polivka, Anne E.; Allard, Mary Dorinda; Sok, Emy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the amount of telework sharply increased, allowing people to work while limiting their exposure to others. At that time, there were no regular monthly economic indicators measuring the prevalence of telework. Thus, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

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The Menopause "Penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause--a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms--also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and...

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Putting School Surveys to the Test

Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; Legate-Yang, Russell; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

School districts increasingly gauge school quality with surveys that ask about school climate and student engagement. We use data from New York City's middle and high schools to compare the long-run predictive validity of surveys with that of conventional test score value-added models (VAMs)....

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? Changes in the Geography of Work in the US, 1980-2021

Hanson, Gordon H.; Moretti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as those in industries in which full-time workers attain high wages, accounting for individual and regional characteristics. The share of good jobs in...

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