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such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation …, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other …. This validation suggests that subjects in the control and cash only groups underreported sensitive behaviors and …
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such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation …, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other …. This validation suggests that subjects in the control and cash only groups underreported sensitive behaviors and …
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such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation …, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other …. This validation suggests that subjects in the control and cash only groups underreported sensitive behaviors and …
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skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half … also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone dramatically reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated … within a year. When cash followed therapy, however, crime and violence decreased by as much as 50 percent for at least a year …
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follow 999 high-risk men in Liberia 10 years after randomization into either: 8 weeks of a therapy; a $200 grant; both; or a …In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … greatest among the highest-risk men. The effects of therapy alone, however, are smaller and more fragile. The effects of …
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skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …
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I review recent developments in the economic analysis of crime, focusing in particular on organized crime and … due to endogenous reporting of crime and the fact that randomized controlled trials are rarely an option when studying … crime. I then discuss recent advancements made possible by the combination of detailed micro-data and quasi …
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