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302 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13280
The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil
Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio
published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4), 1393-1423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13038
Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio, Francesco Principe
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, 102371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13027
Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Michael Jetter, Teresa Molina
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156 ,102843
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12980
Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use
D. Mark Anderson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia
published in: National Tax Journal, 2020, 73 (2), 475-510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12928
Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix, Mohammad Arshad Rahman
published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 227 - 259
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12863
Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
Stefan Bauernschuster, Ramona Rekers
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 201, 104663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12781
Shaking Criminal Incentives
Yu Aoki, Theodore Koutmeridis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12722
The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Involvement with the Criminal Justice System: The Case of California's Proposition 47
Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin, Steven Raphael
published in: Criminology & Public Policy, 2020, 19 (4), 1165-1207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12693
Stay or Flee? Probability versus Severity of Punishment in Hit-And-Run Accidents
Stefano Castriota, Mirco Tonin
published as 'Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2023, 55, 117 - 144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12652
The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47
Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael
published as 'Decarceration and Crime: California’s Experience' in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar, 2022, 83 - 134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12616
Parents' Marital Status, Psychological Counseling and Dishonest Kindergarten Children: An Experimental Study
Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551
Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban
Daniel Masterson, Vasil Yasenov
published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534
Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons
Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12474
Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses
Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12469
Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
Yue Huang, Michael Kvasnicka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12405
Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK
Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Sarah Jewell, Francesca Bettio
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88 (2), 527-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12352
Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime
Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin
published as 'International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crimes' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (3), 589–610
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12335
Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
published in: American Economic Journal, 2023, 15 (1), 110 - 153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12240
Violence and Human Capital Investments
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Livia Menezes
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (3), 787 - 823.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12231
Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking
Armando N. Meier, Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 998-1014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12229
Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany
Horst Entorf, Martin Lange
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 101, 103913
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12228
The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12179
Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation
Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12167
Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12122
Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?
Jenny Williams, Don Weatherburn
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (2), 232–245.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12114
De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Jenny Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Rosanna Smart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12084
Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime
Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, 104804
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12083
Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang
Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11978
International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes
Guido Friebel, Miriam Manchin, Mariapia Mendola, Giovanni Prarolo
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 148, 103878.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11948
The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes
Carly Will Sloan, George S Naufal, Heather Caspers
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11810
The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets
Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar
published in: Cityscape, 2019, 21 (2), 129-156.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11805
Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Brian Bell, Rui Costa, Stephen Machin
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11786
Exploiting the Unbanked: Evidence from Singapore's Unlicensed Moneylending Market
Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665
Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11646
Strategies to Productively Reincorporate the Formerly-Incarcerated into Communities: A Review of the Literature
Jennifer Doleac
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11645
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(4),1269-1324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11644
Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment
Robert Dur, Ben Vollaard
published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 93, 208-220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11567
High on Crime? Exploring the Effects of Marijuana Dispensary Laws on Crime in California Counties
Priscillia E Hunt, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Gabriel Weinberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11555
Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany
Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535
Tax Evasion on a Social Network
Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11492
Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime
Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth, Lutz Sager
published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 555-585.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11491
News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11490
Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts
Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi, Robert Witt
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 1040-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11489
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Jennifer Doleac, Anita Mukherjee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11392
The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?
Diego Zambiasi, Steven Stillman
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (2), 667-679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11390
Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11278
Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 234-240.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10990
The Mitigating Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs
Erica G. Birk, Glen R. Waddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10928
Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 124, 103355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10895
Going after the Addiction, Not the Addicted: The Impact of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal, Ana Tavares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10872
Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead
Stephen B. Billings, Kevin T. Schnepel
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 315 - 344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10858
The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati, Francesco Sobbrio
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3305 - 3336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10857
Drivers of the Underground Economy around the Millienium: A Long Term Look for the United States
Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10796
Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison
Giovanni Mastrobuoni, David A. Rivers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10709
Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10707
Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Markus Gehrsitz
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2017, 30(3), 497-528
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10705
Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century
Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (1), 50 - 67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10608
On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption
Ritwik Banerjee, Arnab Mitra
published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 332 - 355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10607
Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 126, 103447
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10550
Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law
Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer, Cédric Gorinas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10543
You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman
published as 'Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk-taking' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2381-2398
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10522
Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
Davide Dragone, Giovanni Prarolo, Paolo Vanin, Giulio Zanella
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 488-501
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10409
Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders
Michael Mueller-Smith, Kevin T. Schnepel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10374
Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market
Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, 81 - 100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10306
Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization
Stefano Comino, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Antonio Nicolò
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (4), 1214 - 1245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10260
Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru
Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10236
The Decision to Carry: The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications
Briggs Depew, Isaac D. Swensen
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 4 April 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10208
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
Samuel R. Bondurant, Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 124 - 133
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10029
Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households
Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Biagio Speciale
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (3), 654 - 691
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947
Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
S. Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou
published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901
Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9887
High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use
Yu-Wei Luke Chu, Seth Gershenson
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 142-153.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820
Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn
published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9711
Causal Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Education Outcomes for Youth in the Justice System
Alison Evans Cuellar, Dhaval M. Dave
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9702
Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations
Zhixin Dai, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (3), 1081-1100.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9700
College Party Culture and Sexual Assault
Jason M. Lindo, Peter Siminski, Isaac D. Swensen
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (1), 236–265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9695
The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Daniel J. Parisian
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9638
Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo R. Soares, Gabriel Ulyssea
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9561
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl, Andreea Mitrut
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (1), 180-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9501
Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, Akhmed Umyarov
published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9388
The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
Eberhard Feess, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Markus Schramm, Ansgar Wohlschlegel
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 58-73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9374
Education and Criminal Behavior: Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School
Olof Aslund, Hans Grönqvist, Caroline Hall, Jonas Vlachos
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 178-192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9279
School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile
Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1096-1118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9211
Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Marco Manacorda
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 16-33.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9109
The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?
Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis, Stephen Machin
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9067
Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
Jason M. Lindo, María Padilla-Romo
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 253-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9038
Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
Paul Bisschop, Stephen Kastoryano, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 28-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8982
Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in the Crime Market
Evelina Gavrilova, Nadia Campaniello
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 289-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8962
Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
Marc Piopiunik, Jens Ruhose
published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 258-282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8958
The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Seth Gershenson, Erdal Tekin
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2018, 13(4), 513-544.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8900
'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Olivier Marie, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (3), 1210 - 1237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8864
"Ain't No Rest for the Wicked": Population, Crime, and the 2013 Government Shutdown
Ricard Gil, Mario Macis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8849
The Cost of Binge Drinking
Marco Francesconi, Jonathan James
revised version published as "Liquid Assets? The Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129(621), 2090-2136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8800
The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police
Paul Heaton, Priscillia E Hunt, John MacDonald, Jessica Saunders
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8799
Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
publilshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 176, 18-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8718
Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Violent Crime
D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Crost, Daniel I. Rees
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1333-1366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8716
The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Incapacitation and Program Effects
Peter Fallesen, Lars Pico Geerdsen, Susumu Imai, Torben Tranæs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8686
Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam
Ngan Dinh, Conor Hughes, James W. Hughes, Margaret Maurer-Fazio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8677
Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk
Martin Salm, Ben Vollaard
revised version published as 'The dynamics of crime risk perceptions' in: American Law and Economics Review, 2021, 23 (2), 520 - 561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8644
Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration
János Köllő, Bence Czafit
published as 'Employment and wages before and after incarceration - evidence from Hungary' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies. 2015, 4:21
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