This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals’ nationality. We apply a … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who …

education can yield significant social benefits and can be a key policy tool in the drive to reduce crime. …In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …

an unintended policy consequence, associated with the benefit reform, namely higher crime. …In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other work in … way that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on a quasiexperimental setting …

work. To do so we focus on a policy intervention - the Street Crime Initiative - that was introduced in England and Wales …In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces did …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …