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DCM induced an 11 percent reduction in criminal incidents involving arrestees ages 19 to 25, driven by property crime … care, increased educational attainment, and increases in parent-adult child cohabitation may explain these crime declines … crime reduction. …
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incentives and deter crime in the long run. …
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Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
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increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …
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public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors … overall crime between 4.9% and 5.7%, depending on the specification. Our results further suggest that more accountable mayors …
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response to Covid-19 in New Zealand for six crime types in six cities. We then use the estimated models to forecast … counterfactual crime trajectories. Novel elements include cleanly defined lockdown periods, two distinct lockdowns with meaningful …
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A stylized fact in criminology holds that those who commit crimes are more likely to be victims of crime, and vice …
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This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on average over the first five years. We show that...
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Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually …
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We employ a unique 10-year panel dataset from California to examine both the effect crime has on homelessness as well … as the effect homelessness has on crime. Our main estimator accounts for endogeneity by incorporating dynamics … interest. We find strong evidence that regions experiencing increases in property crime, but not violent crime, should expect a …
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