This paper employs a hazard model to analyse the impact of education and two types of prison employment programmes on recidivism over a ten-year period for 4515 prisoners released from Ohio prisons in 1992. Estimations with a Weibull mixture model and propensity score approach provide two means...

The sales tax is assumed to be regressive as those with higher incomes spend a smaller portion of their incomes. This conclusion is based on the presumption that the sales tax is a broad-based consumer tax and that consumers bear the burden of the tax. In practice, the tax is neither broad-based...