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Weak Tests and Strong Conclusions: A Re-Analysis of Gun Deaths and the Australian Firearms Buyback
Neill, Christine; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007
substitution and for underlying trends in suicide or homicide rates are misleading. The high variability in the data and the … introduced in the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) post- 1996 did not affect firearm homicide rates, and may not have had an … impact on the rate of gun suicide or accidental death by shooting. We revisit their analysis, and find that their results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971309
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Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries
Leigh, Andrew; Jencks, Christopher - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
share of the richest 10 percent affect homicide or suicide rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971344
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Do female officers improve law enforcement quality? Effects on crime reporting and domestic violence escalation
Miller, Amalia Rebecca; Segal, Carmit - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
representation are followed by significant declines in intimate partner homicide rates and in rates of repeated domestic abuse. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240397
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Dilemas sociales de la pesca en el pacífico colombiano: un análisis desde la teoría de juegos
Mina, José Santiago Arroyo - In: REVISTA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS (2012)
Este documento centra su análisis en el estudio de las normas sociales de la población dedicada a la extracción del recurso natural pesca, en el pacífico colombiano. Para tal efecto, se plantea un juego no cooperativo con información completa imperfecta entre la comunidad de pescadores de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783554
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A New Risk Emerges : Provider Accountability for Inadequate Treatment of Pain
Tucker, J. D., Kathryn L. - 2008
Patients in the United States are routinely undertreated for pain. This problem has been widely recognized and documented in medical literature. In a seminal medical study of end-of-life care, researchers found that 50% of all patients who died during hospitalization quot;experienced moderate or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770262
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Donohue, John J; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504776
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Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides
McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814468
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Criminal Homicide Because of Blood Feud
Leyla Cak›c› Gercek; Bafra, Jale - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 5 (2005) 1, pp. 1-30
Although so much progress going on in every field, the crimes of killing man impelled by blood feud carry on their existance. All jurisprudences and the decisions of the Court of Appeal about the criminal homicides connected with this type of crimes ha- ve been carefully examined. The required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064736
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Another Look at the Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty
Choe, Jongmook - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
group mean homicide rates. With U.S. state-level panel data for the period 1995 - 2006, this paper fails to find a … significant homicide-reducing effect of death penalty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616754
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
III, John J. Donohue; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061