The budgetary repercussions of capital convictions

Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Baicker, Katherine ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth and NBER   (Canada)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital punishment; Fiscal federalism; Local public finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844357492     PISSN: 15380637     EISSN: 15380637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1538-0637.1311     Document Type: Review

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