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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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Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social … - 2012

We present a theoretical model of immigration and crime in which legal status raises the opportunity cost of crime …% reduction in recidivism, and explains 1/2 to 2/3 of the observed dierences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. …

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Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156467

Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2011

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...

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