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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 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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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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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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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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The Effect of Early Childhood Programs on Third-Grade Test Scores : Evidence from Transitional Kindergarten in Michigan
Berne, Jordan S.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Musaddiq, Tareena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the U.S. early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd grade test scores. Using an augmented regression...
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The Effects of Emergency Rental Assistance During the Pandemic : Evidence from Four Cities
Collinson, Robert; DeFusco, Anthony A.; Humphries, John Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented expansion of federal emergency rental assistance (ERA). Using applications to ERA lotteries in four cities linked to survey and administrative data, we assess its impacts on housing stability, financial security, and mental health. We find that...
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Statistical Discrimination and the Distribution of Wages
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Deb, Rahul; Renou, Ludovic - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We characterize the conditions under which the wage distributions for two groups are consistent with a general model of statistical discrimination. We adapt this theoretical characterization to develop a novel empirical test, the rejection of which we interpret as evidence of taste-based...
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Ride-Sharing Markets Re-Equilibrate
Hall, Jonathan; Horton, John J.; Knoepfle, Daniel T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Following Uber-initiated fare increases, drivers make more money per trip and, initially, more per hour-worked. Drivers begin to work more hours. However, this increase in hours-worked--combined with a reduction in demand from a higher fare--has a business stealing effect, with drivers spending...
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