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Nineteenth Century US African-American and White Female Statures : Insight from US Prison Records

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...

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Physiological Constraints and Comparative Economic Development

Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan - 2018

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...

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Honeybee Economics - Implications for Ecology Policy

Kanniainen, Vesa; Lehtonen, Tuula; Mellin, Ilkka - 2021

For thousands of years, humans have known the value of honeybees in agriculture. Their pollination services are crucial for the mankind, the Global ecosystem and food production. The recently documented decline of the honeybee colonies in the world is alarming and may threaten the whole living...

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A Micro-Level 'Consumer Approach' to Species Population Dynamics

Christiaans, Thomas; Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021

In this paper we develop a micro ecosystem model whose basic entities are representative organisms which behave as if maximizing their net offspring under constraints. Net offspring is increasing in prey biomass intake, declining in the loss of own biomass to predators and Allee's Law applies....

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The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Drago, Francesco - 2017

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

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Optimal Law Enforcement with Sophisticated and Naive Offenders

Buechel, Berno - 2018

Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...

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Police and Crime : Further Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Cardoso, Vicente - 2018

The paper investigates the effect of police presence on homicides at the municipality level in Brazil during the January 2010 to December 2014 period. For this purpose, occasional and illegal police strikes are considered as relevant shocks in a quasi-natural experiment. After controlling for...

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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence : Learning About the Match

Anderberg, Dan - 2018

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...

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The Effect of Surveillance Cameras on Crime : Evidence from the Stockholm Subway

Priks, Mikael - 2010

This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were …

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Facts or Ideology : What Determines the Results of Econometric Estimates of the Deterrence Effect of Death Penalty? A Meta-Analysis

Gerritzen, Berit C. - 2013

This article contributes to the literature on stock market integration by developing and estimating a capital asset pricing model with segmentation effects in order to assess stock market segmentation and its effects on risk premia at the regional level. We show that the estimated degrees of...

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