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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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Do Labor Market Institutions Influcence Suicide Mortality? An International Panel Data Analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970-2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends …
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The Contribution of Pharmaceutical Innovation to Longevity Growth in Germany and France
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2014
I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I examine the effect of the vintage of prescription drugs (and other variables) on the life expectancy and age-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using...
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Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Utilization : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Mandate
Yoruk, Baris - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) dependent coverage mandate on health insurance coverage rates and health care utilization among young adults. Using data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey, I exploit the discontinuity in health insurance coverage...
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2021
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory...
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Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight : Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation
Fehr, Ernst - 2014
The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms -- which are based on off-equilibrium arbitration clauses that...
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Marginal Deterrence at Work
Crinò, Rosario - 2017
We test the rational economic model of marginal deterrence of law enforcement - i.e., the need for graduating the penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US inmates with proxies for maximum punishment and monitoring...
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Bad Boys : How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation
Cohn, Alain - 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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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement : Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...
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