Dead Man Walking: An Empirical Reassessment of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment Using the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration
This paper empirically estimates a murder supply equation for the United States from 1965 to 2001 within a cointegration and error correction framework. Our findings suggest that any support for the deterrence hypothesis is sensitive to the inclusion of variables for the effect of guns and other cri...
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Main Author: |
Paresh Kumar Narayan
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Contributors: |
Russell Smyth
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Format: | Electronic
Book
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Language: | English |
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