Browsing by Author "Bindler, Anna"
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Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; Mitrut, Andreea (2021-12): Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both ... -
Scaring or scarring? Labour market effects of criminal victimisation
Bindler, Anna; Ketel, Nadine (University of Gothenburg, 2019-01)Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and labour market outcomes from the Netherlands to overcome data restrictions ... -
Still unemployed, what next? Crime and unemployment duration
Bindler, Anna (2016-06)In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits, labour market conditions and crime in the light of increasing unemployment durations and temporary benefit extensions in the US. First, I find a ... -
The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2016-10)This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival data set from the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1715 to 1900. We take advantage of three natural experiments ... -
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2019-10)This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police (the first police force ever tasked ... -
The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2019-10)We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judge sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find that three sharp changes in punishment ...