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Source: American Law and Economics Review
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Anderson, D. Mark Hansen, Benjamin Rees, Daniel I. |
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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use American Law and Economics Review 17,2 (Fall 2015): 495-528. Also: http://aler.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/2/495 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Drug Use; Legislation; Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although policymakers and law enforcement officials argue that medical marijuana laws (MMLs) "send the wrong message" to young people, previous studies have produced no evidence of a causal relationship between MMLs and marijuana use among teens. Using data from the national and state Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the Treatment Episode Data Set, we revisit this relationship. Our results are not consistent with the hypothesis that legalization of medical marijuana leads to increased marijuana use among teenagers. |
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Anderson, D. Mark, Benjamin Hansen and Daniel I. Rees. "Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use." American Law and Economics Review 17,2 (Fall 2015): 495-528.
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Hjalmarsson, Randi |
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Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority American Law and Economics Review 11,1 (Spring 2009): 209-248. Also: http://aler.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/1/209.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Geocoded Data; Income; Punishment, Criminal; Self-Reporting Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper assesses whether perceived punishment severity changes discontinuously when an individual becomes an adult in the eyes of the courts. I find that the perceived chance of jail increases by 5.2 percentage points at the age of criminal majority, which is over and above the general effect of aging. The magnitude of this subjective change in the chance of jail at the age of majority appears to be substantially smaller than that found in objective data. Finally, a reduced-form analysis of whether self-reported criminal behavior changes discontinuously at the age of criminal majority finds little consistent evidence of deterrence. ... The analysis in this paper is based on the sample of males in the geocoded version of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). An individual's perception of punishment severity is measured by the following survey question. "Suppose you were arrested for stealing a car, what is the percent chance that you would serve time in jail?" This question is asked in the first five survey rounds; during this time period, more than 80 percent of the sample reaches the age of criminal majority. |
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Hjalmarsson, Randi. "Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority." American Law and Economics Review 11,1 (Spring 2009): 209-248.
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Hjalmarsson, Randi Lopez, Mark |
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The Voting Behavior of Young Disenfranchised Felons: Would They Vote if They Could? American Law and Economics Review 12,2 (2010):265-279. Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Crime; Incarceration/Jail; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Political Attitudes/Behaviors/Efficacy; Underclass; Voting Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper utilizes two nationally representative surveys to study the voting behavior of young adult criminals. We find significant differences in voter turnout and registration rates of criminals and noncriminals. According to the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, just 26% of ever incarcerated individuals voted in the 2004 Presidential election; these individuals were thirty-one percentage points less likely to vote than nonincarcerated individuals. Regressions of voting on arrest and incarceration and a large set of observable characteristics indicate that analyses based on data sets excluding measures of criminal history will overestimate voter turnout rates by six to nineteen percentage points. |
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Hjalmarsson, Randi and Mark Lopez. "The Voting Behavior of Young Disenfranchised Felons: Would They Vote if They Could?" American Law and Economics Review 12,2 (2010):265-279.
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