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 …

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 …

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

taken when it comes to interpreting the results arising from fixed-effects methods. -- Fixed-effects ; crime ; marriage …

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 …

his time after dropping out. -- dropouts ; crime ; wages ; earnings ; idleness …