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congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both … temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of Quito, Ecuador's Pico y Placa program and evaluates its effect on crime …
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This study considers the effect that judicial and police efficiency exercised on crime in 25 of the 33 political …-administrative divisions in Colombia during the period 2000-2011. Specifically, the study seeks to determine whether the reduction of crime was … the result of increases in the cost of crime as a result of the strengthening of the country’s security forces, especially …
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We estimate the effect of losing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits at age 18 on criminal justice and employment outcomes over the next two decades. To estimate this effect, we use a regression discontinuity design in the likelihood of being reviewed for SSI eligibility at age 18...
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survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs … idiosyncratic and unresponsive to information about the arrests of other random individuals and local neighborhood conditions. There … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …
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survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs … idiosyncratic and unresponsive to information about the arrests of other random individuals and local neighborhood conditions. There … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …
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survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs … idiosyncratic and unresponsive to information about the arrests of other random individuals and local neighborhood conditions. There … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …
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histories, but increases in true arrest rates will lower crime. Since it may take time for information about changes in actual … study how perceptions respond to individual information about the probability of arrest and how perceptions affect criminal … behavior. Then, the model is shown to be consistent with the data. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested revise …
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