education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en … Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in … longer-term effects of policy, increase with education, but experience mainly accumulates when in full-time employment. Tax …

negligible to weakly positive. There is stronger evidence that spending on early education and childcare increases labor force …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime … Reports (UCR), combined with a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we find that PDMPs reduced overall crime by 5 …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

in determining benefit levels in panel data estimation of their effects. Variation in benefits across programs during the … early 1900s had significant impact on labor markets, economic activity, family formation, death rates, and crime …