emphasis in the role of race in transracial adoption and how transracial adoption can benefit and/or affect the children who …

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

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 …

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 …

The most frequently explored question in traffic stop data analysis studies is whether drivers race …) Does driving behavior vary by driver race, age, and gender? 2) Does severity of offending behavior vary based on …

decisions in a multi-action setting. A rich literature in economics indicates that monetary incentives substantially influence … contributes to the organizational justice literature by providing evidence regarding the interaction effect of multiple … antecedents of justice. …