Prisons and Crime, Backwards in High Heels
Objectives Prisons reduce crime rates, but crime increases prison populations. OLS estimates of the effects of prisons on crime combine the two effects and are biased toward zero. The standard solution—to identify the crime equation by finding instruments for prison—is suspect, because most variable...
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| Language: | English |
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2013
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2013, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 643-674 |
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