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 …

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

This paper empirically investigates whether individuals withhold a certain amount of cash for precautionary reasons at … the point-of-sale (POS) in order to be able to cover future transactions that might have to be paid for in cash. Such … being settled in cash declines significantly as the amount of cash available at one’s disposal decreases. This indicates …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation … of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that … welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by 4-5%, but did not affect other types of crimes. The effects appear …

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 …

—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 …