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Constitutional Rights and Education: An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian; Marin, Alvaro Garcia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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Further Tests of Abortion and Crime: A Response to Donohue and Levitt (2001,2004, 2006)

Joyce, Ted - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The association between legalized abortion and crime remains a contentious finding with major implications for social … convincing test of abortion and crime should be based on an exogenous change in abortion that had a demonstrable effect on … the effects of abortion on crime over 15 to 20 years of the life of a cohort to lessen the impact of the crack epidemic. I …

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Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

Prescott, J.J.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In recent decades, sex offenders have been the targets of some of the most far-reaching and novel crime legislation in … crime is concentrated among "local" victims (e.g., friends, acquaintances, neighbors), while there is little evidence of a … decrease in crimes against strangers. We also find evidence that community notification deters crime, but in a way …

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The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper uses data from 700+ felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results imply that prosecutors are more likely to use their peremptory challenges to exclude younger members of the jury pool,...

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Theft and Deterrence

Mocan, Naci H.; Harbaugh, William T.; Visser, Michael S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …

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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Bayer, Patrick; Anwar, Shamena; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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The Trouble with Cases

Zeckhauser, Richard; Schauer, Frederick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks whether policy-making or regulation by litigation is more or less socially...

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Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

It is well known that exposure to lead has numerous adverse effects on behavior and development. Using data on two cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems from childhood through early adulthood. I find large...

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Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking

Oyer, Paul; Grubb, Michael D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use university parking permits to study how firms and employees split the value of employee benefit tax subsidies. Starting in 1998, the IRS allowed employees to pay for parking passes with pre-tax income. This subsidized the parking pass purchases of faculty and staff, but did not affect...

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The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

Avery, Christopher N.; Posner, Richard A.; Roth, Alvin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow...

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