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latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …
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intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …
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Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the … link between crime and growth based on the theory of rational choice and empirical data. Exogenous and endogenous growth …
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In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job loss, especially for …
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shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …
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adulthood. By combining administrative data on school performance, high school graduation, crime, earnings, and cognitive and …
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Many empirical studies have examined various determinants of crime. However, the link between crime and air pollution … air pollution affects crime by using daily administrative data for the years 2004-05 in London. For identification, we … concentrations. We find that elevated levels of air pollution have a positive and statistically significant impact on overall crime …
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's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …
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The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …
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