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Weeding out the Dealers? The Economics of Cannabis Legalization

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice; Perrault, Tiffanie - 2020

and legalization. While introducing a legal market reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis … consumption. We show that this trade-off can be overcome by combining legalization with sanctions against users and suppliers of … proposed policy mix can control the increase in cannabis consumption post-legalization and throttle the illegal market. The …

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Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadorian labor market

Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020

Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10% of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap, analyzing a new large...

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Legal status and political representation : the 1986 IRCA and Hispanic public officials

Sabet, Navid - 2020 - This Version: February 18, 2020

What factors lead underrepresented groups to gain more political representation? I digitize a novel source of data that contains records of Hispanics elected to public office from the local to the federal level from 1984 to 1994 and exploit variation in legal status arising from the 1986...

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Regulation of illegal drugs - no longer "what"?, but "how"?

Emerson, Brian - In: Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) 1 (2019) 3, pp. 251-254

The debate about the prohibition of drugs has taken a fundamental turn with the publication of 'Regulation: The Responsible Control of Drugs' by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. This edition of the journal publishes papers addressing how to regulate drugs, which informed the Global...

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The economic effects of providing legal status to dreamers

Ortega, Francesc; Edwards, Ryan D.; Hsin, Amy - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-28

the DREAMer population, and their skill distribution, legalization entails negligible effects on the wages of US …

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Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Rivera … - 2019

We examine the fertility impact of a change in immigration policy granting temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants based on their offspring nationality. The policy, intended to facilitate family reunification, was enacted in a 2011 Royal Decree in Spain. It recognized the ability for...

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Fertility implications of policy granting legal status based on offspring's nationality

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Rivera … - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119228

Regulation of illegal drugs - no longer "what"?, but "how"?

Emerson, Brian - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 3, pp. 251-254

The debate about the prohibition of drugs has taken a fundamental turn with the publication of ‘Regulation: The Responsible Control of Drugs’ by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. This edition of the journal publishes papers addressing how to regulate drugs, which informed the Global...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261141

The economic effects of providing legal status to dreamers

Ortega, Francesc; Edwards, Ryan D.; Hsin, Amy - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-28

the DREAMer population, and their skill distribution, legalization entails negligible effects on the wages of US …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144889

Defeating crime? : an economic analysis of cannabis legalization policies

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice; Perrault, Tiffanie - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177374