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Antidepressants and the Suicide Rate: Is There Really a Connection?

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundin, Douglas - 2005

Recent research claims that the major part of the observed reduction in suicide rates during the 1990's can be … reinvestigate the issue. After controlling for other covariates, observed as well as unobserved, that might affect the suicide rate …, we find, overall, no statistically significant effects from antidepressants on the suicide rate; when we do get …

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The price of violence: Consequences of violent crime in Sweden

Ornstein, Petra - 2017

incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …

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The effect of the patient protection and affordable care act medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing

Hu, Luojia; Kaestner, Robert; Mazumder, Bhashkar; … - 2016

We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on consumer, financial outcomes using data from a major credit reporting agency for a large, national sample of adults. We employ the synthetic control method to compare individuals...

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Foreign exchange regulatory framework and characteristics of the Argentine exchange market regarding the transfer of funds from and to foreign countries

Pesce, Miguel Angel - 2011

The purpose of this document is to prove that the establishment in Argentina of regulations and records for exchange market transactions has a positive externality with respect to the prevention and control of asset laundering and potential terrorist financing, thus making this type of criminal...

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Normativa cambiaria aplicable y características con que opera el mercado de cambios argentino en materia de transferencias de fondos desde y hacia el exterior

Pesce, Miguel Angel - 2011

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...

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Bad boys: How criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...

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Organized Crime and the Bright Side of Subversion of Law

Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016

When Legislators introduce laws that award amnesties to 'low-rank' criminals co- operating with the justice, top criminals may bribe public officials to subvert the law. Legislators should anticipate this reaction and fight it back by introducing policies that bundle amnesties for low-rank...

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Fighting mobile crime

Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2018

We develop a model in which two countries choose their enforcement levels non-cooperatively, in order to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide...

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Mafia Firms and Aftermaths

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; Cantabene, Claudia; Silipo, … - 2019

We use a unique and unexplored dataset to investigate the determinants and effects of mafia firms in Italy. Mafia may use several tools to expand its firms. However, in this paper, we show that they prefer political corruption to violence to expand mafia firms. In particular, they use the latter...

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