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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822768
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - 2003
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262716
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792434
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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery … indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to bribe certain officials conditional on using them, possibly because victims … are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088891
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025650
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - 2021
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319967
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627113
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Why Don't Women Patent?
Hunt, Jennifer; Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578211
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884329
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Why don't women patent?
Hunt, Jennifer; Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; … - 2012
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289955