Long before the U.S. Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976, proponents of the death penalty claimed that executions save lives by deterring would-be murderers from lethal violence. The more recent ascension of deterrence as a rationale for capital punishment in the 1970s coincided with a series of landmark Supreme Court cases that first abolished and then reinstated the death penalt...

Using detail published firm-level panel data from the Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ), this study measures the effect of foreign ownership on wage dispersion. The estimation has been done by the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique. It finds that current R&D and capital expenditures lead to decreased wage dispersion in response to a rise in the foreign investment in Taiwan ROC. However, the lag...

One of the more enduring observations in the study of death penalty support within the United States is the strong divide between males and females. Men have consistently shown significantly higher levels of support for capital punishment than women. This divide between males and females has appeared in nearly every survey, over time, and across a variety of methodological designs. Using data f...

There are no laws preventing a host government from seizing the capital of a foreign direct investment in its borders and then denying any compensation for the foreign investor. Why then do we not see many more expropriations of investor capital by host governments? Compiling a database of expropriations within the minerals sectors of developing countries, we show that there is punishment for e...