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 …

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …. -- beauty : crime ; criminal ; ugly ; physical attractiveness …

these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and … your ground ; castle doctrine ; guns ; crime …

adolescents who suffer from depression face a substantially increased probability of engaging in property crime. We find little … evidence that adolescent depression predicts the likelihood of engaging in violent crime or the selling of illicit drugs. Our … estimates imply that the lower-bound economic cost of property crime associated with adolescent depression is about 219 million …

impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teens use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join …