We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on …In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …

punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on …In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

the last election before the pardon (2006). We also provide evidence of newspapers being more likely to report crime news … crime. Our findings indicate that voters keep politicians accountable by conditioning their vote on the observed effects of …

particular, our estimates suggest that - in an average municipality – an additional crime by pardoned individuals led to a drop … also provide evidence of newspapers being more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals and of voters … holding worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime. Our findings indicate that voters keep …