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Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy

Graeber, Daniel; Meister, Lorenz; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …

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Conscription: Economic costs and political allure

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 1, pp. 6-15

Since Adam Smith, most economists have held that a professional army is superior to a conscript army, thanks to benefitting from comparative advantage and specialization. We summarize recent literature on the benefits and costs of the military draft, with special emphasis on its dynamic effects...

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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005

Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...

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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,...

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The Effect of Conflict on Ukrainian Refugees' Return and Integration

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Giesing, Yvonne; … - 2023

During 2022, about eight million Ukrainians were displaced from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion. Whether these individuals will return holds great significance for Ukraine's reconstruction and is pivotal in shaping integration strategies in host countries. We used Facebook ads to recruit a...

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Hooliganism and Police Tactics: Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where 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...

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