It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit … crime that is unlikely to be motivated by the acquisition of cash. Interestingly, the significant drop in crime in the …

-scale, multi-site randomized controlled study of monthly unconditional cash transfers starting at the time of a child's birth. We … find that the cash transfers increased spending on child-specific goods and mothers' early-learning activities with their … infants. The marginal propensity to consume child-focused items from the cash transfer exceeded that from other income …

early 1900s had significant impact on labor markets, economic activity, family formation, death rates, and crime …

The 2020 CARES Act directed large cash payments to households. We analyze house-holds' spending responses using high …

We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We …

, and lead agents to become risk-loving. Using experimental cash grants involving a choice between a safer, low payoff and a …

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, 186 countries implemented direct cash transfers to households, and 181 introduced … in-kind programs that lowered the cost of utilities such as electricity, water, transport, and mobile money. Do cash or … line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients …

--shaped the age gradient in female crime. We used FBI arrest data to investigate the age-patterning of the effects of welfare … reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led …

reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare … burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide …, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of …

Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including … Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …