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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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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
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Police Discretion and Public Safety
Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over … that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and crash involvement. We then show that officer discretion over … sanctions decreases public safety by comparing observed reoffending rates with those in a counterfactual without discretion …
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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 … institutions as a central determinant of public safety …
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The Impact of Fear on Police Behavior and Public Safety
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we … harm public safety …
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Professional Motivations in the Public Sector : Evidence from Police Officers
Chalfin, Aaron; Gonçalves, Felipe M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how public sector workers balance their professional motivations with private economic concerns, focusing on police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality....
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Man vs. Machine : Technological Promise and Political Limits of Automated Regulation Enforcement
Browne, Oliver; Gazze, Ludovica; Greenstone, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
New technologies allow perfect detection of environmental violations at near-zero marginal cost, but take-up is low. We conducted a field experiment to evaluate enforcement of water conservation rules with smart meters in Fresno, CA. Households were randomly assigned combinations of enforcement...
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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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Welfare Estimates of Shifting Peak Travel
Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D.; Tam, Hiu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop novel estimates of peak and off-peak price elasticities for urban mass transit demand in San Francisco using a large natural experiment with 3.6 million trip sessions and a natural field experiment that both have exogenous price subsidies. We then estimate the welfare impacts for...
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