There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of death penalty. Instead … of using execution rate, this paper uses dummy variables to categorize states into different groups and to compare the … group mean homicide rates. With U.S. state-level panel data for the period 1995 - 2006, this paper fails to find a …

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This … support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than …

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than …

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically sig …- nificant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a sig- nificant deterrence effect than …

We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech … of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible … for the post-1989 growth in crime on a panel dataset of Czech regions. The results show significant deterrence effects for …