Capital punishment stirs up fierce debate in the United States. In this essay, Professor Jeff Fagan questions research that supports the long-accepted view of the deterrent effect of capital punishment.
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Hashem Dezhbakhsh & Joanna M. Shepherd, 2006. "The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence from a "Judicial Experiment"," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 44(3), pages 512-535, July.
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Downloadable (with restrictions)! No abstract is available for this item. ... Isaac Ehrlich, 1973. "The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death," NBER Working Papers 0018, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: ... The authors of these deterrent reports welcome criticism in the interests of science. However, their work is being attacked by opponents of capital punishment for their findings, not their flaws.
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The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Reevaluating the Deterrent Effect of Capital; Punishment: Model and Data Uncertainty;
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The deterrent effect of capital punishment is then the partial derivative of with respect to Pe|c. The debate in this literature revolves around the choice of the regressors in (1), endogeneity of one or more of these regressors, and to a lesser extent the choice of f(). III.
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NBER Working Paper No. 18*; Issued in November 1973 ... NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ... That issue is the deterrent effect of capital punishment, a reexamination of which, in both theory and practice, is the object of the paper.
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Reevaluating the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Model and Data Uncertainty (PDF; 444 KB); Source: National Institute of Justice; “The application of this methodology found little evidence of a deterrent effect for capital punishment.
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The deterrent effect of capital punishment: A review of the research evidence; Janet Chan and Deborah Oxley, School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales; 1. INTRODUCTION; ... The research literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is extensive. Our collection is based on...
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That issue is the deterrent effect of capital punishment, a reexamination of which, in both theory and practice, is the object of the paper. ... Related works:; Journal Article: The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death (1975) ; This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers:
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