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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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Prison conditions and recidivism
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2008
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...
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The impact of social capital on crime: evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities' historical states in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277209
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Can mistargeting destroy social capital and stimulate crime? Evidence from a cash transfer program in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Shah, Manisha - 2012
program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …
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Crime, punishment and the measurement of poverty in the United States, 1979-1997
Irvine, Ian; Xu, Kuan - 2002
The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically in the U.S. since 1980. We explore the implications of this increased incarceration on national poverty measurement using micro data for the period 1979-1997. We make use of an as-yet unexplored data set on prisoner earnings, in conjunction...
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Kriminalität: Abschreckung wirkt
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - In: DIW Wochenbericht 72 (2005) 38, pp. 543-552
Eine Analyse amtlicher Daten für die Jahre 1977 bis 2001 liefert deutliche Anzeichen für die Wirksamkeit polizeilicher Arbeit und gerichtlicher Sanktionen. Als wichtigster kriminalitätsreduzierender Faktor erwies sich die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Aufklärung von Straftaten und der Verurteilung...
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The deterrent effects of prison: evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2007
punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …
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The intergenerational effects of parental incarceration
Dobbie, Will; Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan; Palme, … - 2019
in childhood leads to a significant increase in teen crime and significant decreases in educational attainment and adult …
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Incarceration and Crime: Lessons from California’s Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 4, pp. 40-46
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Accounting for the racial property crime gap in the US: A quantitative equilibrium analysis
Cozzi, Marco - 2010
equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …
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