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The Pharmacological Channel Revisited : Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogotá
De Mello, Joao - 2013
Our goal in this paper is twofold: First, evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales … in Bogotá; and second, quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. Using … effects on several crime categories. We find that the restriction reduced deaths and injuries in car accidents and batteries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082267
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The Pharmacological Channel Revisited : Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogota
Mello, Joao - 2013
This paper attempts to evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales in Bogota and … quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. It is found that the restriction … the causal pharmacological impact of alcohol consumption on crime using the restriction as an instrument for problematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080996
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The Pharmacological Channel Revisited: Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogota
Mello, Joao De; Londono, Daniel Mejia; Suarez, Lucia - 2013
This paper attempts to evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales in Bogota and … quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. It is found that the restriction … the causal pharmacological impact of alcohol consumption on crime using the restriction as an instrument for problematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328188
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The Pharmacological Channel Revisited: Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogota
Mello, Joao De; Londono, Daniel Mejia; Suarez, Lucia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper attempts to evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales in Bogota and … quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. It is found that the restriction … the causal pharmacological impact of alcohol consumption on crime using the restriction as an instrument for problematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636776
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The Empirics of Regulatory Reforms Proxied by Categorical Variables: Recent Findings and Methodological Issues
Bastianin, Andrea; Castelnovo, Paolo; Florio, Massimo - 2017
Some regulatory reforms do not change just a specific signal that can be represented by a quantitative continuous variable, such as a tax rate, a price cap, or an emission threshold. The standard theory of reform in applied welfare economics (going back to contributions by e.g. Ramsey, Samuelson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662432
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Do slum upgrading programs impact school attendance?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Guerrero, Diego - 2021
This paper analyzes how slum upgrading programs impact elementary school childrens attendance in Uruguay. We take advantage of the eligibility rule that deems slums eligible for a SUP program if they have 40 or more dwelling units. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity estimator, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178211
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The Empirics of Regulatory Reforms Proxied by Categorical Variables : Recent Findings and Methodological Issues
Bastianin, Andrea - 2017
Some regulatory reforms do not change just a specific signal that can be represented by a quantitative continuous variable, such as a tax rate, a price cap, or an emission threshold. The standard theory of reform in applied welfare economics (going back to contributions by e.g. Ramsey, Samuelson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954658
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Political Budget Cycle : An Analysis of Brazilian Municipalities
Crispim, Gilberto; Flach, Leonardo; Alberton, Luiz; … - 2021
The study investigates the behavior of committed expenses, investment expenditures and loan during an election period in Brazilian municipalities with a population equal to or greater than 50 thousand inhabitants, as well as whether these same municipalities meet the legal requirements regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216277
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The Impact of College Admissions Policies on the Performance of High School Students
Grau, Nicolas - 2013
This paper empirically evaluates the effects of college admissions policies on high school student performance. To this end, I build a model where high school students decide their level of effort and whether to take the college admissions test, taking into consideration how those decisions may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079095
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Do slum upgrading programs impact school attendance?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Guerrero, Diego - 2021
This paper analyzes how slum upgrading programs impact elementary school childrens attendance in Uruguay. We take advantage of the eligibility rule that deems slums eligible for a SUP program if they have 40 or more dwelling units. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity estimator, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668794