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The economics of peace and war : an overview
Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 64 (2018) 4, pp. 545-554
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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264089
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Hooliganism in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Tsunami : do police reduce group violence?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462089
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Unemployment and ginag crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003465761
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Hooliganism in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the tsunami : do police reduce group violence?
Priks, Mikael (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471357
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Priks, Mikael (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471375
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School shootings and student performance
Poutvaara, Panu; Ropponen, Olli - 2010
In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can perform a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976846
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578420
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Hooliganism and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an … increase in discriminative policing, provided by intelligence units, for example, always reduces violence. Under the right … circumstances, it may also lead to larger supporter clubs and a significant drop in violence. Indiscriminate policing, such as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003596108
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496637