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these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and …
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explores the impact of state E-Verify laws on crime. Using agency-by-month data from the 2004 to 2015 National Incident Based …-skilled natives of Hispanic descent, and outmigration of younger Hispanics are important channels. We find no evidence that crime was … displaced to nearby U.S. jurisdictions without E-Verify or that violent crime was impacted by E-Verify mandates. Moreover …
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latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …
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To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …
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In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...
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Despite intense public interest in keeping guns out of schools, next to nothing is known about the effects of gun control policies on youth gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the period 1993-2013, this study is the first to examine the...
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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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Debate over safe-storage gun regulations has captured public attention in the aftermath of several high-profile shootings committed by minors. Whether these laws actually decrease youth gun violence, however, is an unanswered question. Using data from the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports for...
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-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of … boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that gang crime (but not other crime) increases the likelihood of teenage … motherhood for girls. Higher levels of gang crime also have detrimental and long-lasting effects, with men experiencing …
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