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 …

State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their …

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there …

financial costs that have been the focus of the literature to date. -- cash transfer programs ; crime ; mistargeting ; social …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 …

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … from incapacitation from time spent in school. -- conditional cash transfer ; Bolsa Família ; crime ; education ; schooling … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …

We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … implementation of the reform. We find that the reform reduced crime among teenage boys from economically disadvantaged families …. Stronger reform effects on weekday versus weekend crime, reduced school dropout, and favorable long-run outcomes in terms of …