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Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 14:234-270
This paper studies the health effects of Swedish prison reforms that held sentences constant but increased the share of time inmates had to serve. The increased time served did not harm post-release health and actually reduced mortality risk. We find
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Autor:
Randi Hjalmarsson, Anna Bindler
Publikováno v:
Journal of the European Economic Association. 19:3063-3103
This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police (the first police force ever tasked with deterring crime) and the 18
Autor:
Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Law and Economics. 63:297-339
We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judges’ sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find th...
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Publikováno v:
The Economic Journal. 129:2522-2562
We study the causal effect of mandatory military conscription in Sweden on the criminal behaviour of men born in the 1970s. We find that military service significantly increases post-service crime (overall and across multiple crime categories) betwee
Autor:
Randi Hjalmarsson, Anna Bindler
Publikováno v:
Journal of the European Economic Association. 17:1971-2017
A large behavioral economics literature is concerned with cognitive biases in individual and group decisions, including sequential decisions. These studies often find a negative path-dependency consistent with mechanisms such as the gambler's fallacy
Autor:
Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 10:36-78
This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision making using archival data from London’s Old Bailey Criminal Court from 1772 to 1871. We exploit two natural experiments in English history, resulting in sharp decreases in punis
We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented on juries. Using quasi-rand
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w28572
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28572
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly White and high-income neighborhoods are substantially overrepresented on juries. Using quasirandom