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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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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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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 …