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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266339
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282200
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Speed discounting and racial disparities: evidence from speeding tickets in Boston
Anbarci, Nejat; Lee, Jungmin - 2008
Law enforcement officers are allowed to exercise a significant amount of street-level discretion in a variety of ways. In this paper, we focus on a particular prominent kind of discretionary behavior by traffic officers when issuing speeding tickets, speed discounting. Officers partially forgive...
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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012
Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321476
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Between meritocracy and ethnic discrimination: the gender difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268621
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The impact of being monitored on discriminatory behavior among employers: evidence from a natural experiment
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the right to conduct discrimination tests and to even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269199
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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269375