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Inequality, crime, and the long-run legacy of slavery
Buonanno, Paolo; Vargas, Juan F. - 2017
Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …
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Are millennials really so selfish? : preliminary evidence from the philanthropy panel study
Koczanski, Peter; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2019
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Social proximity and misinformation : experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2022
We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...
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Welfare as simple(x) equity equivalents
Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
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Rotten kids with bad intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - 2010 - Rev. version January 2010
We examine a “Rotten Kid” model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intentionbased rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually...
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Climate change and individual decision making : an examination of knowledge, risk perception, self-interest and their interplay
Pongiglione, Francesca - 2011
In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual's direct experience of climate change and...
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Strong subjectivism in the Marxian theory of exploitation : a critique
Veneziani, Roberto; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2009
This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo ([7]), in the context of general convex economies with heterogeneous agents. It is proved that the Fundamental Marxian Theorem is not preserved in his subjectivist approach,...
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Crime, punishment, and schooling decisions : evidence from Colombian adolescents
Ibáñez, Ana María; Rodríguez, Catherine; Zarruk, David - 2013
influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …
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The effects of punishment of crime in Colombia on deterrence, incapacitation, and human capital formation
Guarin, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - 2013
Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...
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Tempering the taste for vengeance : information about prisoners and policy choices in Chile
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Cafferata, Fernando G.; … - 2020
Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … about the prison population shapes tastes for punitive anti-crime policies. Respondents in the treatment group received …
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