This paper employs a hazard model to analyse the impact of education and two types of prison employment programmes on recidivism over a ten-year period for 4515 prisoners released from Ohio prisons in 1992. Estimations with a Weibull mixture model and propensity score approach provide two means...

The hedonic modeling literature is rich with analyses of the importance of public school quality on real estate markets. In this paper, spatial dependency is incorporated in a hedonic model based on housing, neighborhood, demographic, and school quality attributes readily available on the...

Sales taxes paid by businesses are buried in production costs and therefore hidden from consumers and policymakers. Final (tax included) prices are related to the number of taxable transactions that the good has undergone and who bears the tax as well as to resource costs. Thus the total sales...