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Access to guns in the heat of the moment : more restrictive gun laws mitigate the effect of temperature on violence
Colmer, Jonathan; Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2023
Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures increase violent behavior. In this paper, we consider whether restricting the concealed carry of firearms mitigates or exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two...
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Impulse purchases, gun ownership and homicides : evidence from a firearm demand shock
Koenig, Christoph; Schindler, David - 2019
Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....
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Hold your fire! : influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the US
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
Objective: This paper considers the influence of female legislators on gun legislation across US states. Females have behavioral differences from males and likely different exposure to gun-related violence. Method: Using data from 1991-2020, we econometrically estimate the drivers of gun...
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Guns, environment, and abortion : how single-minded voters shape politicians' decisions
Bouton, Laurent; Conconi, Paola; Pino, Francisco; … - 2018
We study how electoral incentives affect policy choices on secondary issues, which only minorities of voters care intensely about. We develop a model in which office and policy motivated politicians choose to support or oppose regulations on these issues. We derive conditions under which...
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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents
Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019
The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …
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Do immigrants affect crime? : evidence from panel data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita; Übelmesser, Silke - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the … interpretation of the estimates. There is no evidence that immigrants increase crime. …
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Immigration, regional conditions, and crime : evidence from an allocation policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519915
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Estimating long-run incarceration rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
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The second convict age : explaining the return of mass imprisonment in Australia
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …
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