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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Speeding Fines and Recidivism
Goncalves, Felipe - 2017
We estimate the causal effect of harsher speeding punishments on future driving behavior of cited drivers. To account for the fact that punishments are not randomly assigned, we leverage variation in ticket-writing practices across highway patrol officers in Florida. The fine associated with a...
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Does supporting passenger railways reduce road traffic externalities?
Lalive, Rafael; Lüchinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013
reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether … increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by …
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The Impact of Handheld Legislation on Traffic Fatalities : Evidence from a Temporal Regression Discontinuity Design
Wright, Nicholas; Dorilas, Ernest - 2021
legislation on the level of traffic fatalities. We find consistent evidence that introducing a law which restricts the use of … handheld devices while driving results in a 22% reduction in daily traffic fatalities and reduces average fatalities by 0 …
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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
large impacts of private police on public safety, with violent crime in particular decreasing. These contradictory results …
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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures
Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2018
Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform substantially reduced the number of police stations....
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Gov-arrrgh-nance : Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
Groot, Olaf J. de; Shortland, Anja - 2010
In this paper, we argue that the effect of governance on the emergence of crimes of different levels of sophistication is highly non-linear. State failure, anarchy and a lack of infrastructure are not conducive to establishing any business, including illicit enterprises. At the bottom of the...
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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
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Strategic bureaucratic opacity : evidence from death investigation laws and police killings
Celislami, Elda; Kastoryano, Stephen; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2023
Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the underreporting of police killings. Our results show...
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The Effects of a Simpler Criminal Procedure on Criminal Case Outcomes : Evidence from Czech District-Level Data
Dusek, Libor - 2015
The paper estimates the effects of a simpler criminal procedure on case durations and the probabilities that the defendant is charged and convicted. The identification strategy exploits a policy reform in the Czech Republic as a quasi-natural experiment. The reform allowed petty offenses to be...
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Using Hit Rates to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement : Vehicle Searches in Wichita
Persico, Nicola G.; Todd, Petra - 2005
This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are heterogenous in...
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