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How Corruption Affects Bank Lending in Russia

Weill, Laurent - 2012

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … interest in order to understand the causes of financial underdevelopment and the effects of corruption in Russia. We use … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption …

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Does substance use affect educational outcomes? : there is little evidence that substance use reduces educational

Rees, Daniel I. - 2014

A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does the use of alcohol and illegal substances - which is linked to depression, suicide, and criminal activity - also reduce academic performance? Recent studies suggest that drinking alcohol has a negative, if...

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Terror and the Costs of Crime

Gould, Eric D. - 2009

This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i) by increasing the presence and activity of the...

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Recreational Marijuana Laws and Junk Food Consumption : Evidence Using Border Analysis and Retail Sales Data

Baggio, Michele - 2019

We use retail scanner data on purchases of high calorie food to study the link between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and consumption of high calorie food. To do this we exploit differences in the timing of introduction of marijuana laws among states and find that they are complements....

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Age-dependent court sentences and crime bunching : empirical evidence from Swedish administrative data

Tyrefors, Björn; Palme, Mårten; Priks, Mikael - 2017

According to Swedish penal code, there is a "rebate" on all prison sentences before the 21st birthday. We exploit this age discontinuity to investigate how individuals respond to harsher punishments. We use a large Swedish dataset, including dates for all crimes which led to convictions for...

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Life and Death in the Fast Lane : Police Enforcement and Traffic Fatalities

Hansen, Benjamin; DeAngelo, Gregory J. - 2013

This paper estimates the causal effect of police on traffic fatalities and injuries. Due to simultaneity, estimating the causal effect of police on crime is often difficult. We overcome this obstacle by focusing on a mass layoff of Oregon State Police in February of 2003, stemming from changes...

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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alesina, Alberto F.; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2011

This paper proposes a test of racial bias in capital sentencing based upon patterns of judicial errors in lower courts. We model the behavior of the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of the probability of sentencing an innocent and that of letting a guilty defendant free. We define racial...

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The Economics of a Centralized Judiciary : Uniformity, Forum Shopping and the Federal Circuit

Atkinson, Scott; Marco, Alan C.; Turner, John L. - 2014

In 1982, the US Congress established the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) as the sole appellate court for patent cases. Ostensibly, this court was created to eliminate inconsistencies in the application and interpretation of patent law across federal courts, and thereby mitigate...

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A Simple Test of Abortion and Crime

Joyce, Theodore - 2008

I first replicate Donohue and Levitt's results for violent and property crime arrest rates. I apply their data and specification to an analysis of age-specific homicide rates and murder arrest rates. The coefficients on the abortion rate have the wrong sign for two of the four measures of crime...

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Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

Lochner, Lance - 2003

This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs about the probability of an arrest are positively...

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