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Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-20)
There is a large and growing literature on how childhood peers shape outcomes. However, within this literature little is known about the effects of the different neighborhood factors, such as the relative importance of ...
Corrupt Police
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-08-21)
PERC Professor Danila Serra, along with Klaus Abbink and Dmitry Ryvkin employ laboratory experiments to examine the effects of corrupt law enforcement on crime within a society. The authors embed corruption in a social ...
Misdemeanor Prosecution
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-12)
Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. So far there has been little empirical evidence to inform policy in this area. In this paper, ...