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Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? : the role of beautifying photo-filters

Kunst, Jonas R.; Kirkøen, Jannicke; Mohamdain, Onab - In: Management decision 61 (2023) 4, pp. 924-943

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Racial justice : Black judges and defendants in an urban trial court

Uhlman, Thomas M. - 1979

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On probation : an experimental analysis

Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009

Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...

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At the mercy of the prisoner next door : using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool

Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010

calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. -- Crime ; Prison …

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The Impact of Post-Release Employment on Recidivism in North Carolina

Berger-Gross, Andrew - 2022

This study uses longitudinal data on a cohort of individuals exiting prison in North Carolina to examine the relationship between post-release employment and subsequent criminal justice contact. Individuals who found employment shortly after exiting prison in 2016 were significantly less likely...

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Prison Work Programs in a Model of Deterrence

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2017

is to deter crime. Two types of prison work programs are studied — voluntary ones and mandatory ones. A voluntary work …

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Chapter 7 Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment

Levitt, Steven D.; Miles, Thomas J. - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 455-495). 2007

identifying the effects of punishment on crime by finding new ways to break the simultaneity of crime rates and punishments. The … new empirical evidence generally supports the deterrence model but shows that incapacitation influences crime rates, too …. Evidence of the crime-reducing effect of the scale of policing and incarceration is consistent across different methodological …

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Community Impacts of Mass Incarceration

Gupta, Arpit; Hansman, Christopher; Riehl, Evan - 2022

Student achievement is lower in communities with high incarceration rates. To investigate this relationship, we assemble a new dataset which matches students' academic performance to the court records of household members. Exploiting the exogenous turnover of judges (who vary in their tendency...

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At the mercy of the prisoner next door: Using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool

Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010

calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270634