Vaillant, Nicolas; Dervaux, Benoît - In: Revue économique 62 (2011) 2, pp. 237-254
Ehrlich?s seminal work led to several econometric analyses on the deterrent effect of punishment. Our paper extends this literature by using original cross-section time-series covering the 30 French appeal court areas from 1988 to 1993. Because of a restricted access to the crime data, we focus...