from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in parental incarceration from the random assignment of … leads to significant increases in teen crime and pregnancy and a significant decrease in early-life employment. The effects … are concentrated among children from the most disadvantaged families, where teen crime increases by 18 percentage points …

Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for …

expenditures in the U.S. rank behind only Sweden. Add in the private spending, and per capita spending in the U.S. is higher than …

child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across …

We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on … crime. Our estimates indicate that pregnancy triggers sharp declines in arrests rivaling any known intervention, supporting … birth. Men show a sustained 20 percent decline in crime that begins at pregnancy, although arrests for domestic violence …

challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …'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 …