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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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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 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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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data

Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...

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Composite Sorting

Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Wang, Ruodu; Zhang, Zhenyuan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose a new sorting framework: composite sorting. Composite sorting comprises of (1) distinct worker types assigned to the same occupation, and (2) a given worker type simultaneously being part of both positive and negative sorting. Composite sorting arises when fixed investments mitigate...

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From Retributive to Restorative : An Alternative Approach to Justice

Adukia, Anjali; Feigenberg, Benjamin; Momeni, Fatemeh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from a zero-sum perspective: suspend students seen as disruptive and potentially harm them, or avoid suspensions and harm their classmates. Restorative practices (RP) -- focused on reparation and shared ownership of disciplinary...

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Careers and Wages in Family Firms : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Di Porto, Edoardo; Pagano, Marco; Pezone, Vincenzo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate compensation policies in family and non-family firms using a novel employer-employee matched dataset comprising nearly the universe of Italian incorporated firms and ownership information. Family firms pay significantly lower wages and offer slower and less rewarding careers....

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Workers and the Green-Energy Transition : Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions

Curtis, E. Mark; O'Kane, Layla; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using micro-data representing over 130 million online work profiles, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title, firm name, occupation, and industry to...

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