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 …

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 …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by … that there is no discernible effect on county-level crime rates. These null effects are consistent across all types of …

deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …