We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in … longer-term effects of policy, increase with education, but experience mainly accumulates when in full-time employment. Tax …

negligible to weakly positive. There is stronger evidence that spending on early education and childcare increases labor force …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime … Reports (UCR), combined with a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we find that PDMPs reduced overall crime by 5 …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

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 …

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 …

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 determining benefit levels in panel data estimation of their effects. Variation in benefits across programs during the … early 1900s had significant impact on labor markets, economic activity, family formation, death rates, and crime …