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he COVID-19 pandemic calls for a collective response at the global and regional level. Otherwise, some nations may be … mobility of people and goods, and supporting their economy. The pandemic is therefore a test for regions. They must demonstrate …
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regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...
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and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …
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Abstract This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime. By being the first study to use …, highlighting a potential gap in the conventional theories of economics of crime. The point-estimate of long-term unemployment for …
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This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education … is a way of escaping youth inactivity and idleness, and, since youth inactivity is known to trigger crime, the self …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the …
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This paper estimates the effect of female economic empowerment on domestic violence. I use individual level data from …-party reported violence measure, I overcome the issue of selective under-reporting of violence. I proxy female economic empowerment … reflects the outside option of the marriage, and captures earnings variation that is not endogenous to domestic violence. I …
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adulthood. By combining administrative data on school performance, high school graduation, crime, earnings, and cognitive and …
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We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
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developing countries before the pandemic. Having said that, such nudges typically work by leading parents to show up in school to … online academic activities prior to the pandemic. Findings: Nudges decreased dropout risk by around 26% over the course of … prior to the pandemic. Framing content in terms of the upside of graduating high school led to higher impacts than framing …
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