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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American mafia

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 586, pp. 256-288

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Optimizing criminal behavior and the disutility of prison

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017

We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...

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Police patrols and crime

Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2018

deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …

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Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - 2014 - First draft July 2011, This draft: January 2014

effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants … differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. …

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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014

their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking …

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Police disruption and performance : evidence from recurrent redeployments within a city

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2015

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its …

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Police disruption and performance : evidence from recurrent redeployments within a city

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2015

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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …

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Criminal discount factors and deterrence

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2016

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …

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Returns to education in criminal organizations : did going to college help Michael Corleone?

Campaniello, Nadia; Gray, Rowena; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - In: Economics of education review 54 (2016), pp. 242-258

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