used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

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 …

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 …

disaggregation techniques. To evaluate market and nonmarket costs and benefits of climate change, ANEMI model integrates an economic …

Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU) since the … the coefficient of variation. The results show little evidence of price convergence for non-residential construction for … either country group. This is shown to be in contrast with convergence that is evident in the prices of other product groups …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … support output convergence and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature might be spurious. However …

The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing … convergence inEurope that cannot be adequately captured by the non-spatial growth regression models thathave dominated the … research and policy debate in this field. Evidence for convergence andspatial dependence emerges especially when estimations …

, conditional and sigma convergence of GDP growth per capita in the farming field forthe brasilian states in the period of 1980 to … existence of sigma convergence. …