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This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …
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Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
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Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266333
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317898
In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …
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The purpose of this paper is to determine whether workers’ commitment to the labor force declined after 9/11, as many popular press accounts at the time suggested it would. The results indicate that any measured decline in hours spent working was the result of economic conditions rather than...
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in childhood leads to a significant increase in teen crime and significant decreases in educational attainment and adult …
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It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...
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I present empirical evidence showing that terrorism financing and recruitment pro- mote terrorist attacks. Pakistan … offers an ideal setting for this research due to a natural experiment inducing exogenous variation in terrorism financing. In …, measured by combining dark web data and machine learning. These results suggest that financial counter-terrorism lowers attacks …
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Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires … development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we develop a theory of fundamentalism and terrorism under which leaders …
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