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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity

Soliman, Adam - 2021

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …

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Prisons, drug interdiction, and preschool programs : alternative human capital investments

Williams, Vergil L. - In: International advances in economic research : IAER ; an … 3 (1997) 1, pp. 81-90

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Mandatory minimum policy reform and the sentencing of crack cocaine defendants : an analysis of the fair sentencing act

Bjerk, David - 2016

The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years. A primary goal of this legislation was to lessen the harshness of sentences for...

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Mandatory minimums and the sentencing of federal drug crimes

Bjerk, David - 2017

The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility quantities for crack are very small when compared to those for other drugs. This paper shows that the...

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Essays in applied microeconometrics

Cerveny, Jakub - 2017

Duration analysis has been widely used in the applied economic research since the late 1970s. The framework allows to examine the duration of time intervals and the rate of transition across a set of states over time. Many economic behaviors follow a similar pattern, such as transition from the...

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