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Terror and the costs of crime
Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - 2009
going out for leisure activities. Our analysis exploits a panel of 120 fatal terror attacks and all reported crimes for 17 …-specific time trends, we show that terror attacks reduce property crimes such as burglary, auto-theft, and thefts-from-cars. Terror … police presence after a terror attack. A higher level of policing is likely to catch more people trespassing, and at the same …
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Vanishing Third World emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
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Vanishing Third World emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
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Political repression and child labour : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Alessandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 29 (2006) 2, pp. 211-239
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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...
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Vanishing third world emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004
Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in many of these countries it is forbidden by law. In this paper we develop a politicaleconomic...
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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004
Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in many of these countries it is forbidden by law. In this paper we develop a political-economic...
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The determinants of demand for tourism in Turkey : does terror-threat matter? : A Markov Regime Switching-VAR approach
Bilgili, Faik; Çoban, Serap; Marangoz, Cumali; Bulut, Emre - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 71 (2021) 4, pp. 587-607
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...
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