Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate convergence or divergence trends at global scale. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper questions the methodology and findings of the conventional convergence literature using linear OLS models. It … world: a convergence one, including countries with low to medium‐high development levels, and a divergence one including …

Abstract The article discusses the possibility of classifying plagiarism as a culturally motivated crime. Creating … plagiarism is a crime and those where the failure to mark the authorship of a work results from the customs prevailing in their …

property crime, have sex, join gangs, attempt suicide, or run away from home. We employ propensity score matching methods to …

analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teenagers use or sell drugs, commit property crime …

Abstract Donohue and Levitt (2001) attribute over half of the decline in U.S. crime rates during the 1990s to abortion …, as more than a quarter of the drop in violent crime can be attributed to the increase in teenage abortions that occurred … after legalization. These results suggest that lower crime rates from abortion legalization are due to better timing of …

on crime rates. The elasticity of violent crime with respect to childhood lead exposure is estimated to be 0.8, and this … little evidence indicates an effect of lead on property crime. Overall, I find that the reduction in childhood lead exposure … in the late 1970s and early 1980s was responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s and may cause …

Abstract Although political leaders and the public believe that California’s “tough on crime” policies, most notably … its “Three Strikes” sentencing framework, put into effect in 1994, are responsible for a 100% crime drop in California … since 1992, the evidence from research and a logical examination of data on violent crime state by state over the past 50 …

done the opposite. Was Clinton truly more anti-crime? I estimate that Clinton-era federal programs were responsible for a … six to eight percent reduction in crime seen in the last decade. The Bush administration has failed to build on the … Clinton administration's success in funding more police. For no good reason, a crime-control program that has a very favorable …