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 … transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash …

Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking …

Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are … consequences arising from misallocation of resources in close knit communities. We find that the mistargeting of a cash transfer … program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …