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Common trends in the US state-level crime : what do panel data say?
Costantini, Mauro; Meco, Iris; Paradiso, Antonio - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642023
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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
, increase crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742892
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Private donations, government grants, commercial activities, and fundraising: Cointegration and causality for NGOs in international development cooperation
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012
NGOs could help scale up foreign aid efforts by mobilizing private donations. However, fundraising activities do not necessarily result in higher donations, and substitution effects between different sources of revenue may diminish the overall pool of NGOs' resources. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286844
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Equilibrium real effective exchange rates and real exchange rate misalignments : time series vs. panel estimates
Hossfeld, Oliver - 2010
We follow the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate approach by Clark and MacDonald (1998) to derive equilibrium real effective exchange rates and currency misalignments for the US and its 16 major trading partners. We apply cointegration and panel cointegration techniques to derive fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374380
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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals
Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014
to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386014
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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532559
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Does halting refugee resettlement reduce crime? : evidence from the United States refugee ban
Masterson, Daniel; Yasenov, Vasil - 2019
increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by … that there is no discernible effect on county-level crime rates. These null effects are consistent across all types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064135
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Voters' response to public policies : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017 - First Version: November 2016
. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …
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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267476
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Estimating the causal effect of gun prevalence on homicide rates: a local average treatment effect approach
Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
This paper uses a local average treatment effect (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly address the problems of endogeneity, proxy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268527