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Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2008

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...

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Sentence reductions and recidivism: lessons from the Bastille Day quasi experiment

Maurin, Eric; Ouss, Aurelie - 2009

This paper exploits the collective pardon granted to individuals incarcerated in French prisons on the 14th of July, 1996 (Bastille Day) to identify the effect of collective sentence reductions on recidivism. The collective pardon generated a very significant discontinuity in the relationship...

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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The results from the models that do not control for...

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Medical marijuana laws, traffic fatalities, and alcohol consumption

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011

To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety of outcomes. Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among...

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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? Evidence from Germany

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2008

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …

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Delinquent networks

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Crime, prosecutors, and the certainty of conviction

Entorf, Horst - 2011

police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

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Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Hunt, Jennifer - 2003

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

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Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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