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Politics in the Courtroom : Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Anwar, Shamena - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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Neighbourhood gangs, crime spillovers, and teenage motherhood

Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023

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Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-Worker : The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2010

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, a star baseball player in the late 1980's and 1990's, affected the performance of his teammates by introducing them...

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Does School Choice Increase Crime?

Bibler, Andrew; Billings, Stephen B.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who...

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Criminality and Social Interaction

Mendonca, Mario Jorge Cardoso; Loureiro, Paulo R. A.; … - 2003

As regards to the abrupt growth of crime, it has been analyzed that, only with Becker's (1968) original findings, is … explain the mechanisms which react to crime. New research lines are being demonstrated the topic which studies the existing … or family heritage has impact on crime. The approach which gives us the support on this research parts from the …

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Anti-Mafia Police Actions, Criminal Firms, and Peer Firm Tax Avoidance

Chircop, Justin; Fabrizi, Michele; Malaspina, Patrizia; … - 2022

Mafia firms introduce distortions in the markets in which they operate, increasing the cost of doing business for peer firms. We investigate whether peers respond by increasing their tax avoidance and thus increasing funds available to compete with the Mafia firms. Using a sample of Italian...

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Peer effects and recidivism : the role of race and age

Tan, Kegon T.K.; Zapryanova, Mariyana - In: The journal of law, economics, and organization 38 (2022) 3, pp. 721-740

Recidivism rates are a growing concern due to the high cost of imprisonment and the high rate of ex-prisoners returning back to prison. One policy-relevant and potentially important determinant of recidivism is the composition of peer inmates. In this paper, we study the role of peer effects...

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The effect of school and neighborhood peers on achievement, misbehavior, and adult crime

Billings, Stephen B.; Hoekstra, Mark - In: Journal of labor economics : JOLE 41 (2023) 3, pp. 643-685

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Neighbourhood gangs, crime spillovers, and teenage motherhood

Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023

1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of … boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that gang crime (but not other crime) increases the likelihood of teenage … motherhood for girls. Higher levels of gang crime also have detrimental and long-lasting effects, with men experiencing …

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Neighbourhood gangs, crime spillovers and teenage motherhood

Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 133 (2023) 653, pp. 1901-1936

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