program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

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 … had a negative and significant effect on the overall crime rate as well as burglary, assault, and larceny. According to …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage …

apparent paradox – firing cost effects are modest even without firm avoidance activities. To explore why that should be so … and the economic environment. Although the analysis assumes a fixed benefit mandate, the cost measures are easily extended …

selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% …