reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare … burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide …, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of …

typically a decade, although the persistence weakens with time, and there are some periods when federal intervention led to a re … early 1900s had significant impact on labor markets, economic activity, family formation, death rates, and crime …

crime by roughly 1.5 percent. By limiting the amount of free time for relief recipients, work relief was more effective than …The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in … on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a ten percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s lowered property …

the legal possibility of dropping out. The "crime" and "dropout" differences are strong but somewhat muted by the fact …

We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation … welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by 4-5%, but did not affect other types of crimes. The effects appear … property crime …

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 …

—shaped the age gradient in female crime. We used FBI arrest data to investigate the age-patterning of the effects of welfare … reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led …

in all of the Nordic countries. Finally, I document the enormous diversity across time and place in public social …

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily … simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities … crime more so than property crime …