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Article: Research from P. Buonanno and colleagues has provided new data on law and economics.
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- Economics Week
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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"We investigate the effects of civic norms and associational networks on crime rates. Civic norms may attach guilt and shame to criminal behavior, thus increasing its opportunity cost," scientists in Bergamo, Italy report.
"Associational networks may increase returns to noncriminal activities and raise detection probabilities, but they may also work as communication channels for criminals and may offer official cover to criminal activities. The empirical assessment of these effects poses serious problems of endogeneity, omitted variables, measurement error, and spatial correlation. Italy's great variance in social and economic characteristics, its homogeneity in ...
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