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 one-fourth of US incarceration and not all of US crime. The …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US … inmates with proxies for maximum punishment and monitoring costs across US states over 50 years. Consistent with the theory of …

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 …

Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that …

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various … deterrent effect of the death penalty, but profound uncertainty -- even about its sign. -- execution ; capital punishment … ; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence …