Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence
By Lawence F. Katz, Steven D. Levitt, E. Shustorovich. 2003
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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2009, background): “Katz, Levitt, and Shustorovich (2003) take a different approach to estimating the deterrent effect of prison.”
- Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature (2017, background): “…Zimmerman 2004, 2006; and Dezhbakhsh and Shepherd 2006) finding large and significant deterrence effects, and several equally prominent papers (Katz, Levitt, and Shustorovich 2003; Berk 2005; Donohue and Wolfers 2005, 2009; and Kovandzic, Vieraitis, and Paquette-Boots 2009) finding little…”
- Model Averaging in Economics: An Overview (2015, unknown): “In order to calculate the posterior model probability in (5) we also need to compute f (y|Mj) that is often called the marginal (or integrated) likelihood: f (y|Mj) = ∫ f ( y|βj,Mj ) g ( βj|Mj ) dβj.”
- A random walk in the literature on criminality: A partial and critical view on some statistical analyses and modelling approaches (2010, background): “A non exhaustive list of proxies used in the literature includes female participation rate in the labor market as a proxy for the proportion of unguarded homes [10] ; number of police personnel per 100,000 inhabitants and the existence of death penalty as a proxy for severity of punishment [8] ; per”
- The Externalities of Inequality: Fear of Crime and Preferences for Redistribution in Western Europe (2016, background): “11The individuals who are most likely to consider committing crime, the poor, are generally thought to have very high discount rates (Wilson and Herrnstein 1985; Katz et al. 2003).”
- Imprisonment and Reoffending (2009, background): “For 2 Research on the differential effect of prison conditions is sparse and conflicting (Katz, Levitt, and Shustorovich 2003; Chen and Shapiro 2007); accordingly, we do not consider this aspect of specific deterrence in this essay.”