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Prison Labor Can Create Perverse Incentives for Incarceration and Reduce Trust in Legal Institutions

Belinda Archibong
Government proponents of prison labor should be mindful of the potential for negative effects, including increased incarceration rates and citizens’ deteriorating views on state...
Covid-19

Tailoring Lockdowns for Developing Countries

Titan Alon
The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated livelihoods in developing nations, and coronavirus-related deaths are rising in Africa and South Asia at an alarming rate. How...
Covid-19

Can Covid-19 Erode Young Individuals’ Trust in Politics for Decades to Come?

Cevat Giray Aksoy
A new study shows that exposure to an epidemic during one's “impressionable years” (18-25) has a persistent negative effect on trust in political institutions...
Covid-19

Lifting Lockdown Measures Won’t Bring Back Lost Jobs, New Study Suggests

Yongseok Shin
A new paper examines data on local outbreaks in South Korea and finds that even in the absence of lockdowns, an increase in confirmed...
Covid-19

What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty

Stefano Feltri
As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas Diamond, Steven...
News

Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory

Felipe Goncalves
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient...
Commentary

Should Small Businesses Consider Bankruptcy? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on most businesses, but it has been especially hard on small businesses. Should those businesses file for...
Commentary

The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Impatience. But America Will Need Patience in the 2020 Election

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
The proliferation of mail-in voting is likely to make knowing who won the election take much longer than Americans are used to. Voters in...
News

What is the Connection Between Collective Bargaining and Police Officer Misconduct? Evidence from Florida

Dhammika Dharmapala
A working paper finds that after sheriffs’ deputies in Florida were allowed to unionize, violent incidents increased by 40 percent. In the aftermath of the...
Income Inequality

Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police. "Defund the police" has...
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