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100 _a Lee, Frances XU and Suen, Wing.
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245 _aCredibility of crime allegations
260 _aAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics
300 _a12(1), Feb, 2020: p.220-259
520 _aThe lack of hard evidence in allegations about sexual misconduct makes it difficult to separate true allegations from false ones. We provide a model in which victims and potential libelers face the same costs and benefits from making an allegation, but the tendency for perpetrators of sexual misconduct to engage in repeat offenses allows semiseparation to occur, which lends credibility to such allegations. Our model also explains why reports about sexual misconduct are often delayed, and why the public rationally assigns less credibility to these delayed reports.- Reproduced
773 _aAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics
906 _aSEXUAL MISCONDUCT
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