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I use three separate datasets and designs to determine whether sex offender registries are effective. First, state-level panel data is used to determine whether sex offender registries or public access to them decreases the rate of rape and other sexual abuse. Second, a dataset which contains...
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presence in the Mall area of Washington, D.C. Using daily crime data during the period the terror alert system has been in … place, we show that crime drops significantly, both statistically and economically, in the Mall area relative to the other … areas of Washington, D.C. This provides strong evidence of the causal effect of police on crime and suggests a research …
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presence in the Mall area of Washington, D.C. Using daily crime data during the period the terror alert system has been in … place, we show that crime drops significantly, both statistically and economically, in the Mall area relative to the other … areas of Washington, D.C. This provides strong evidence of the causal effect of police on crime and suggests a research …
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. We have demonstrated that fiscal policies affect crime through government spending. Conversely, the effect of monetary … policy, especially inflation, on crime depends on the separability of the utility function. …
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This paper shows a world where the individual practices concomitantly legal and illegal activities in two period of their lifetime. The results of the two-period model unveil that effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies and increase of probability of the agent to be apprehended and...
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This paper shows a world where the individual practices concomitantly legal and illegal activities in two period of their lifetime. The results of the two-period model unveil that effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies and increase of probability of the agent to be apprehended and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629169
This article proposes a change in public policy that promises to greatly reduce major crime in the United States …
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This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random order, without requiring input or action from affected individuals. Linking records of...
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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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