This paper proposes a test of racial bias in capital sentencing based upon patterns of judicial errors in lower courts …

to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …

" in the sense that more crimes were committed during the week prior to a 21st birthday, followed by a reduction in crime … during the week after this birthday. We do not, however, find that harsher punishment reduces the crime rate permanently. …

patent law across federal courts, and thereby mitigate the incentives of patentees and alleged infringers to "forum shop" for …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

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 … the tendency for individuals to stay home after a terror attack further increases the costs of crime …

I first replicate Donohue and Levitt's results for violent and property crime arrest rates. I apply their data and … wrong sign for two of the four measures of crime and none is statistically significant at conventional levels. I then use … and age-specific crime rates …

such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation …, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other … impacts of cash and therapy on crime may be larger than suggested by surveys alone …