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Reforming social welfare in Germany : an applied general equilibrium analysis

Boeters, Stefan - 2003

This paper analyses the effects of a social assistance reform in Germany. In contrast to studies which are based on microsimulation methods we use a computable general equilibrium model which incorporates a discrete choice model of labour supply to simulate a variety of reform scenarios. The...

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Reforming social welfare in Germany : an applied general equilibrium analysis

Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2003

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Allocating resources among prisons and social programs in the battle against crime

Donohue, John J. - In: The journal of legal studies 27 (1998) 1, pp. 1-43

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New social contract : America's journey from welfare state to police state

Davey, Joseph Dillon - 1995

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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior : evidence from head start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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Juvenile punishment, high school graduation, and adult crime : Evidence from idiosyncratic judge harshness

Eren, Ozkan; Mocan, Naci - In: The review of economics and statistics 103 (2021) 1, pp. 34-47

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Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism? Evidence From the Make-it-Right Program

Shem-Ṭov, Yotam; Raphael, Steven; Skog, Alissa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies the effect of a restorative justice intervention targeted at youth ages 13 to 17 facing felony … of MIR on the likelihood that a youth will be rearrested in the four years following randomization. Assignment to MIR … juvenile restorative justice conferencing can reduce recidivism among youth charged with relatively serious offenses and can be …

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Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests

Deza, Monica; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on juvenile arrest outcomes. We leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period 1999 to 2016 in a two-way fixed-effects model. Office-based treatment is the most common modality...

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The Effects of Youth Employment on Crime : Evidence from New York City Lotteries

Kessler, Judd B.; Tahamont, Sarah; Gelber, Alexander M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent policy discussions have proposed government-guaranteed jobs, including for youth. One key potential benefit of … youth employment is a reduction in criminal justice contact. Prior work on summer youth employment programs has documented … among "at-risk" youth in the year or two after the program. We add to this picture by studying randomized lotteries for …

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Juvenile punishment, high school graduation and adult crime : evidence from idiosyncratic judge harshness

Eren, Ozkan; Mocan, Naci - 2017

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