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In a real economy, decisions on investments in child human capital of children are made by families rather than by atomistic parents as is typically assumed in the literature. This paper incorporates family formation into an otherwise standard dynastic framework with human capital accumulation....
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This research compares the patterns of intergenerational income mobility between fathers and sons in Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the United States. It is one of the few studies that investigates more than one dimension of mobility. It also proposes a new way to construct the mobility...
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This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard … work does not pay and that the government should increase the amount of redistribution to the poor. -- Happiness ; crime …
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a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …
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At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address...
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four qualifications to the duty of confidentiality were crafted in 1924 in Tournier's Case when crime was viewed as a local …
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and other types of crime. Using a panel of the 50 US states observed between 1981 and 2005 and the Economic Freedom Index … measured by this index and homicide rates. The results nevertheless show that other types of crime decrease with liberalizing … spending or tax reforms. Effects of liberalizing tax reforms in particular may spill over from less violent crime to lower …
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The article engages in an ideology critique of international criminal law texts and discourse, drawing on a theoretical framework developed by critical legal studies scholars in order to interrogate, in a different jurisprudential context, the assumptions undergirding contemporary international...
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revenue in 2019. Organized oil crime syndicates are often transnational and conduct theft and fraud professionally, exploiting …. The proceeds of oil theft often finance other organized crime, and it triggers violence against the community and in crime-on-crime …
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The article presents a novel dynamic setting to compare old – usury – and new – cryptocurrency – money laundering techniques and uses it for calibration to shed light on their relative role as an effective device for the criminal organizations to clean their illegal revenues. The...
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