Crime and punishment in the “American Dream”
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Crime and punishment in the “American Dream”
We observe that countries where belief in the “American dream”(i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic system) in a way that replicates...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.11.010