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which homicide rates reached historical maximums. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between these two … phenomena. Can the explosive increases in homicide rates be attributed to demographic change? Cohort-level data on population … and homicide victims is used to explore two mechanisms through which population forces could affect homicide rates; these …
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abortion rate has a significant and negative impact on crime rates, specifically, homicide and theft. We also observe support …
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, homicide and theft. We also observe support for the impact of legalization of abortion on the reduction of crime when …
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out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents the simulation results of the hypothetical case of U.S., and Colombia … occurring in 1996, and 1998 with 24,950, and 61,516 casualties respectively; while for Colombia three attacks are artificially …-political context of the war in Iraq is different, Its objective, is to use the experience from Colombia to help policy, and decision …
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This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
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We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East Germany experienced a very large, but temporary, drop in birth rates mostly driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a...
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-fatal accidents and state-level youth motor vehicle accident fatality rates. The results imply that the net effect of an increase in … the full price of alcohol on youth traffic crashes is negative, while the opposite is found for marijuana. …
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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Population aging requires policies addressing ‘population, participation and productivity’. By failing to acknowledge women’s productive work in the unpaid care economy, current retirement income policies may reduce incentives to invest in children, the future labour force, and thereby...
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We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase liquor, around 24.6% (s.e.=5.5%) for males and...
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