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This paper provides further evidence on the impact of crime on the job market using the time series data over the … period 1980-2007 for Argentina. We also address methodological flaws by earlier crime studies by employing autoregressive … distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration advocated by Pesaran et al (2001). The results show that unemployment has a …
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. Our econometric analyses further enriches the analysis demonstrating inter alia that individuals' locus of control and …
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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 …
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Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity of supermarket customers to steal while using a self-service checkout system. Crucially, this system allows shoppers to engage in dishonest behavior by under-reporting the...
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from tort law. My analysis suggests that society will make an activity a crime whenever the social benefits of changing …
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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 …
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This research shows that social capital is important in explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. Social … negatively correlated with current crime rates, after controlling for a range of contemporaneous socio-economic indicators. Next …
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The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …
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that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
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