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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … since 1934. We then revisit the existing instrumental variables approaches and assess two recent state-specific execution … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …

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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty: Facts or ideology?

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011

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Stand your ground laws and homicides

McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...

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The US Crime Puzzle : A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment

Spamann, Holger - 2015

This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the variation between other countries. But the estimated models predict only...

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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty : facts or ideology?

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This … support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far … arguments in policy debates, but also on the moral questions involved in this particular debate. -- death penalty ; deterrence …

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Facts or ideology : what determines the results of econometric estimates of the deterrence effect of death penalty? ; a meta-analysis

Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than … ; deterrence ; econometric evidence ; ideology …

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J. (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … ; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence … provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data …

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Incarceration and Crime: Lessons from California’s Public Safety Realignment Reform

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 4, pp. 40-46

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Feature Comment : U.S. Contractor Compliance Rules are Likely to Expand

Yukins, Christopher R. - 2011

In response to recommendations and developments in the U.S. procurement community, the U.S. Government is expected soon to issue revised standards for contractor compliance systems. Those standards will likely require more contractors - including contractors working abroad, and perhaps...

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The Ethics of Tax Evasion : A Survey of Chinese Business Students in USA and China

McGee, Robert W.; Salimi, Anwar Y. - 2018

Tax evasion has existed historically. The present study lists rationalizations for tax evasion in a survey consisting of 18 questions. This survey has been used in the past including a survey of business students in China by McGee, Yoon and Li (2015). The present study surveys Chinese business...

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