estimates of the causal effects of misdemeanor prosecution on defendants' subsequent criminal justice involvement. We leverage … case should move forward with prosecution in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. These ADAs … vary in the average leniency of their prosecution decisions. We find that, for the marginal defendant, nonprosecution of a …

. Losing immunity (and the resultant presumed fear of prosecution) pacifies the MPs of the opposition parties. They become less … shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical … immunity from prosecution impacts how the Members of the Parliament (MPs) act and perform their duties in the Parliament …

research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines …

research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines …

Air Force. The reform seeks to address challenges facing military R&D, in particular a less innovative defense industrial … base. We show that the Open program attracts new entrants, defined as younger firms and those without previous defense SBIR … awards. In a regression discontinuity design that offers the first causal evaluation of a defense R&D program, we show that …