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Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010
Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We...
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Judging Judge Fixed Effects
Frandsen, Brigham R. - 2019
We propose a test for the identifying assumptions invoked in designs based on random assignment to one of many "judges.'' We show that standard identifying assumptions imply that the conditional expectation of the outcome given judge assignment is a continuous function with bounded slope of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893139
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Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2017
target level of deterrence at least cost. We assume that prison has higher disutility and higher cost per unit time than … deterrence …
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A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation
Shavell, Steven - 2014
The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and … reason is that successful deterrence may require a relatively high probability of sanctions and thus a relatively high …—implying that incapacitation may be superior to deterrence …
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Deterrence and the Adjustment of Sentences During Imprisonment
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2019
model of the adjustment of sentences assuming that the state's objective is the optimal deterrence of crime. In the model …, the state can lower or raise the sentence based on deterrence-relevant information that it obtains about a criminal during … imprisonment. Our focus on sentence adjustment as a means of promoting deterrence stands in contrast to the usual emphasis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866177
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 2012
The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...
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Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime : an Application of the "Market for Offenses Model"
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010
The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143178
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Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Magnitude and Probability of Fines
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - 2022
Some of the costs of enforcing laws are fixed" - - in the sense that they do not depend on the number of individuals who commit harmful acts- -while other costs are "variable"- - they rise with the number of such individuals. This article analyzes the effects of fixed and variable enforcement...
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Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - 2021
violations. Corruption dilutes deterrence because bribe payments are less than sanctions. The state may not be able to offset … for bribery -- and thereby increase deterrence of the underlying violation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310213
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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
Kling, Jeffrey R.; Ludwig, Jens; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate...
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