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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

. Exploiting random variation in climate, we find that as economic conditions in Afghanistan worsen, people become more religiously …

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Measuring the Tolerance of the State : Theory and Application to Protest

Andirin, Veli; Neggers, Yusuf; Shadmehr, Mehdi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the regime's tolerance as the...

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Mistrust, Misperception, and Misunderstanding : Imperfect Information and Conflict Dynamics

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-degenerate higher-order beliefs) can lead to conflict and drive its dynamics. We develop our analysis in the context of three classic … learning about the opponent's type, as well as the possibility of conflict spirals, traps, and cycles; and a deterrence model …. We relate these models to the empirical literature and to current and historical episodes of conflict …

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"Something Works" in U.S. Jails : Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program

Alsan, Marcella; Barnett, Arkey M.; Hull, Peter; Yang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A longstanding and influential view in U.S. correctional policy is that "nothing works" when it comes to rehabilitating incarcerated individuals. We revisit this hypothesis by studying an innovative law-enforcement-led program launched in the county jail of Flint, Michigan: Inmate Growth...

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Dying or Lying? : For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care

Gruber, Jonathan; Howard, David H.; Leder-Luis, Jetson; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The Medicare hospice program is intended to provide palliative care to terminal patients, but patients with long stays in hospice are highly profitable, motivating concerns about overuse among the Alzheimer's and Dementia (ADRD) population in the rapidly growing for-profit sector. We provide the...

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Continuances and Uncertainty in the Course of Adjudication

Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The myriad uncertainties common to the process of adjudication--concerning evidence that opposing parties will present, legal issues that will become relevant, illness of witnesses, and the like--lead to two social problems. First, when unanticipated events occur, the information that parties...

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Law-Abiding Immigrants : The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020

Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Torres, Juan David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We combine full-count Census data (1850-1940) with Census/ACS samples (1950-2020) to provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1850-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants had higher incarceration rates than US-born white men before...

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Did Violence Against Asian-Americans Rise in 2020? : Evidence from a Novel Approach to Measuring Potentially Racially-Motivated Attacks

Knorre, Aleksei; Tiem, Britte van; Chalfin, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Did anti-Asian violence rise after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic? Efforts to answer this question are compromised by the inherent difficulty of measuring racially-motivated crimes as well as concerns that reporting of racially-motivated hate crimes may have changed due to their increased...

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Importing the Opioid Crisis? International Trade and Fentanyl Overdoses

Moore, Timothy J.; Olney, William W.; Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The U.S. opioid crisis is now driven by fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that currently accounts for 90% of all opioid deaths. Fentanyl is smuggled from abroad, with little evidence on how this happens. We show that a substantial amount of fentanyl smuggling occurs via legal trade flows,...

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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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