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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 example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...

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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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Do Police Maximize Arrests or Minimize Crime? Evidence from Racial Profiling in U.S. Cities

Stashko, Allison - 2020

arrests or to minimize crime? In this paper, I compare models of the two police objectives to data from U.S. cities. Empirical … evidence is consistent with a model of arrest maximization and inconsistent with a model of crime minimization. These findings …

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Twitter and crime : the effect of social movements on gender-based violence

Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta - 2022

link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …

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