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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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Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reflect a low reporting-propensity, exacerbated by the lockdown measures....
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We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We then structurally estimate our model using data...
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Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and … focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984- 2008. Our findings suggest that all types of terrorism depress FDI. In addition …, aid mitigates the negative effects of total and domestic terrorism on FDI; however, this is not the case for transnational …
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Terrorism is a global phenomenon with devastating consequences for the individuals involved and society in general. The … evidence on the causal impact of terrorism on migration is scarce. The contribution of our paper is twofold. First, we …
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) to capture the effects of terrorism on air passenger traffic between nations affected by terrorism. We then use equations … terrorism on bilateral air passenger flows from 57 source countries to 25 destination countries for the period of 2000 to 2014 …%. Terrorism adversely impacts the bilateral air passenger transport per unit distance both by reducing national output and …
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We report robust evidence of adverse cross-border externalities from terrorism on trade for over 160 countries from … 1976 to 2014. Terrorism in one country spills over to reduce trade in neighboring nations. These externalities arise from …
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