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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years : Experimental Evidence
Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can reduce such antisocial behaviors. These behavior changes may be temporary, however, especially from therapy on its own. This is unsettled,...
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Building Non-Discriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data
Arnold, David; Dobbie, Will; Hull, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome of interest is only selectively observed. These tools are applied in the context of pretrial bail decisions, where conventional algorithmic predictions are...
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Does School Choice Increase Crime?
Bibler, Andrew; Billings, Stephen B.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who...
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Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
Heller, Sara B.; Jakubowski, Benjamin; Jelveh, Zubin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper shows that shootings are predictable enough to be preventable. Using arrest and victimization records for almost 644,000 people from the Chicago Police Department, we train a machine learning model to predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 months. We address central concerns...
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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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Officer-Involved : The Media Language of Police Killings
Moreno, Jonathan; Ouss, Aurélie; Bayer, Patrick J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is significantly more likely to use several language structures - e.g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs -...
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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
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Does Defensive Gun Use Deter Crime?
Donohue, John J.; Oktay, Alex; Zhang, Amy L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the opposing deterrent and enabling effects of guns carried by law-abiding citizens on violent crime, using … Violence Archive suggests that defensive gun use (DGU) by crime victims may decrease the probability of their injury or death … commensurate increase in the incidence and lethality of crime. In summary, our analysis supports the conclusion that the widespread …
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Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety
Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Jácome, Elisa; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How does immigration enforcement affect public safety? Heightened enforcement could reduce crime by deterring and … incapacitating immigrant offenders or, alternatively, increase crime by discouraging victims from reporting offenses. We study the U …
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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway
Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...
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