economics, psychology, policy

Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand: The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China Janet Currie, Wanchuan Lin, Juanjuan Meng N...

The death penalty is an emotive and complex subject. The degree to which it is accepted in some countries, especially in the USA, seems biz...

This is the title of an article in the current edition of the Economic and Social Review by Ronald Davies (UCD). Link here . Abstract below....

Immigration: America's nineteenth century "law and order problem"? New NBER Working Paper No. 16266 Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn ...

Pro Bono Economics "is a new charity whose aim is to broker economists into the charitable sector to help on short and medium-term as...

Apparently there has been an increase in crime against property and naturally people are linking it to the recession. But this argument is b...

This new NBER paper advances the fascinating hypothesis that the diffusion of new therapies for mental illness have significantly reduced vi...

A key issue in modeling crime is whether imprisonment works in reducing crime and, if so, is it through the incarceration effect (they are b...

Crime Mapping is a Google hot trend that peaked at #3 about 6 hours ago, with 21% of search volume in Los Angeles, CA and 6% of search volu...