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 …

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

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 …

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … employment by limiting cash assistance leads to responsible behavior in the next generation. As such, the social gains of welfare …