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Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime

Gavrilova, Evelina; Kamada, Takuma; Zoutman, Floris - 2015

We examine the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) on crime treating the introduction of MML as a quasi …-experiment and using three different data sources. First, using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, we find that violent crimes such … drug-related violent crime and drug trafficking. Extrapolating, our results indicate that decriminalization of the …

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An Empirical Test of the Institutionalist View on Income Inequality Economic Growth within the United States

Rodriguez, Carolyn B. - 2001

This paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality and economic growth within the United States using state-level data. It describes income inequality in the U.S. since 1960, then employs a two-step causal model to test the institutionalist contention that income inequality leads to...

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El Golpe : U.S. labor, the CIA, and the coup at Ford in Mexico

McKenzie, Rob; Dunne, Patrick - 2022

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Estimating the Effect of U.S. Concealed Carry Laws on Homicide : A Replication and Sensitivity Analysis

Bondy, Matthew; Cai, Samuel; Donohue, John J. - 2022

concealed-carry laws on crime, one can generate considerable variation across models in the estimated effects of these laws …

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Pains, guns and moves : the effect of the U.S. opioid epidemic on Mexican migration

Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; Masera, Federico - In: Journal of development economics 160 (2023), pp. 1-30

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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the effects of a comprehensive performance pay program for teachers implemented in high-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked administrative data from a Southern state, we leverage the...

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Teacher performance pay, coaching, and long-run student outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2023

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Law Enforcement and Criminality : Europe Vs. USA

Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 2009

difference between the US and Europe in crime statistics and law enforcement expenditures …

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Identity and Public Policy : Do Female State Legislators Affect Crime in the US?

Majid, Muhammad Farhan - 2009

prisons. This paper shows that female politicians in the US do not have any immediate negative effect on actual crime rates …. The OLS estimates show that female politicians have a significant but negligible effect on crime. To address any … instrumental variable results show that female politicians do not have a statistically significant effect on crime rates. I then …

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Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates? The Walmart Effect on Crime in the United States

Wolfe, Scott; Pyrooz, David - 2014

data sources and propensity-weighted multi-level modeling, this paper explores the “Walmart effect” on crime. Concentrating … on the 1990s, results reveal that Walmart is located in US counties with higher crime rates, net of robust macro …-level correlates of crime. Walmart selected into counties primed for the 1990s crime decline, but after accounting for endogeneity …

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