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used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …
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a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …
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The most frequently explored question in traffic stop data analysis studies is whether drivers race/ethnicity influences police officers stopping behavior. The public perceptions of racially biased policing are entirely focused on the behavior of police officers. Thus, it is not surprising that...
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This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …
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externalities and the method of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) make part of this device. From its application the adoption of measures …
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We develop a dynamic model of livestock disease and decentralized economic behavior as a jointly-determined system. By accounting for feedbacks between behavioral choices and disease outcomes we capture the endogenous nature of infection risks. We consider government mandated testing of...
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We explore in this paper the consequences of status seeking preferences among agentscontracting with a private principal in the context of production. We examine in particular the case of envy and we show that in general envy entails augmented distortions due to asymmetric information in optimal...
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including payment towards environmental services. Hence as externalities are socialcosts, accountability is crucial in … a modest attempt has been made to estimate externalities in water, forests and environment with field data from … peninsular India to reflect on theeconomic perception of externalities by farmers and users of environment for the consideration …
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significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …
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situations where choices are incompatible, (often referred to as externalities) and proposing solutions. This presentation … reviews some of the literature and economic theory related to externalities, and focuses on two particular economist …
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