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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 …
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cash transfer program have higher levels of education in their young adulthood and a lower incidence of criminality for … time with child does not appear to matter. -- Cash transfer programs ; quasi-experiment ; educational attainment …
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Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...
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Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …
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This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … large relative increases in crime rates in the medium term, but these effects virtually disappear in the long term. This …
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Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed …
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We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random order, without requiring input or action from affected individuals. Linking records of...
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …
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