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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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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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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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