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| Grosjean, Pauline. |
| Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact that it was a frontier region settled by people whose economy was based on herding: the Scotch-Irish. Herding societies develop cultures of honors for reasons having to do with their precariousness: violence is a necessary condition to preserve a reputation for toughness and deter animal theft. Using historical census data on waves of settlers from Europe and relating contemporaneous violence to early Scotch-Irish settlers, this paper provides a test of the link between... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Culture of honor; US South; Labor and Human Capital; K4; Z; Z13. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90902 |
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| Bayer, Patrick; Pozen, David E.. |
| This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional histories, judge-assigned restrictiveness levels, and home zipcodes allowing us to control for the non-random assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for-profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for-profit facilities operate at a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Juvenile Crime; Juvenile correctional facilities; Recidivism; Prison privatization; Provision of public goods; Nonprofit; For-profit; Public; Labor and Human Capital; H0; H1; H4; K0; K4. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28484 |
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| Di Vita, Giuseppe. |
| In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more protected, promote real and financial investment; this increases the speed at which the per-capita income corresponding to the declining branch of the Environmental Kutznets Curve (EKC) is achieved. In econometrics different regression analyses were performed using as dependent variables three different kinds of pollutants (CO2, fine suspended particulates and waste), including as an explanation some financial variables never before considered in this kind of study. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Dummy Variables; Environmental Kutznets Curve; Legal Families; Panel Data; Pollution Emissions; Environmental Economics and Policy; K4; Q0. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8219 |
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| Khazzoom, J. Daniel. |
| The problem posed by the uninsured motorist is of concern to the general public, policyholders, insurance companies, insurance regulators, and legislators. What is striking, however, is the fragmentary nature of the information that is available and the fact that it is scattered over so many sources. Even more striking is the fact that those sources often provide conflicting estimates, and the methods used in deriving those estimates are either never spelled out or, if they are, their reliability is unknown. In view of the general concern with the problem of uninsured motorists, this paper attempts to present an overview of what we know about the uninsured motorists and how well we know what we know through the following measures: clarifying the subtleties... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Converting fixed to variable cost; Efficient pricing of auto insurance; Environmental benefit of Pay-at-the-Pump; Uninsured motorists/vehicles; Universal auto insurance; Pay-at-the-Pump insurance; Risk and Uncertainty; K4; L9; Q2; R4. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10533 |
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