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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime
Traub, Stefan - 2006
efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. …
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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007
We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …
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Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan: Strategien, Perspektiven, Konsequenzen
Schmidt, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Engagement der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft reduziert werden kann, im Gegenteil: Der Ausbau von Streitkräften und Polizei …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178538
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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring
Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …
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Earthquakes and economic growth
Fisker, Peter Simonsen - 2012
This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326928
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru
Escobal, Javier; Torero, Máximo - 2003
In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and landscapes, with rainforests, high mountain ranges and dry deserts, the geographical context may not be all that matters, but it could be very significant in explaining regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279131
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Producing an improved geographic profile of poverty: Methodology and evidence from three developing countries
Demombynes, Gabriel; Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jenny; … - 2002
This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of disaggregation that to date have not generally been available. The methodology is based on a statistical procedure to combine household survey data with population census data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279156
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Phasen internationaler Migration und ihre Auswirkungen auf Raum- und Siedlungsentwicklung in Deutschland seit 1945
Gans, Paul; Schlömer, Claus - In: Räumliche Auswirkungen der internationalen Migration, (pp. 127-161). 2014
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verzeichnete Deutschland bis heute eine insgesamt positive Wanderungsbilanz. Die Migrantenströme unterliegen erheblichen zeitlichen Schwankungen und offenbaren eine Abhängigkeit von politischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen, die ihre Ursachen in Deutschland,...
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The Digital Divide
Piazolo, Daniel - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 3, pp. 29-34
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