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Do legal origins affect cross-country incarceration rates?
D'Amico, Daniel J.; Williamson, Claudia R. - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 3, pp. 595-612
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Avoiding convictions : regression discontinuity evidence on court deferrals for first-time drug offenders
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2016
record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit … unexpected failure of a ballot initiative to expand the county jail. Using administrative data and local polynomial regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594627
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Determinants of recidivism in paroled Queensland prisoners : a comparative analysis of custodial and socioeconomic characteristics
Worthington, Andrew Charles; Higgs, Helen; Edwards, Glyn - In: Australian economic papers 39 (2000) 3, pp. 312-326
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Crime and punishment in the "American dream"
Di Tella, Rafael; Dubra, Juan - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003388267
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The war on drugs and crime rates
Saadatmand, Yassaman; Toma, Michael; Choquette, Jeremy - In: Journal of business & economics research 10 (2012) 5, pp. 285-290
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Crime and punishment in the "American Dream"
Di Tella, Rafael; Dubra, Juan - In: Journal of public economics 92 (2008) 7, pp. 1564-1584
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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
Di Tella, Rafael - 2010
We observe that countries where belief in the quot;American dreamquot; (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760591
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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
Tella, Rafael Di - 2006
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466020
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Racial Differences in Body-Mass Indices for Men Imprisoned in 19th Century US Prisons : A Multinomial Approach
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316215
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An empirical examination of institutions and cross-country incarceration rates
D'Amico, Daniel J.; Williamson, Claudia R. - In: Public choice 180 (2019) 3/4, pp. 217-242
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