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The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death

American Economic Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 397-417, June 1975

22 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2007

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Isaac Ehrlich

State University of New York at Buffalo - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of Chicago - University of Chicago Press; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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Ehrlich, Isaac, The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death. American Economic Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 397-417, June 1975, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=961494

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