and federal minimum wage increases, as well as 21 state EITC programs, on recidivism. We find that the average minimum … observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes … are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability …

of engaging in crime and therefore, a priori drawing the conclusion that criminal activity cannot be altered by …Although decades of empirical research has demonstrated that criminal behavior responds to incentives, non …

to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal … respond similarly to changes in a sibling's criminal and arrest history. The perceived probability of arrest is then linked to …

Ban-the-box (BTB) laws, which prevent employers from asking prospective employees about their criminal histories at … initial job screenings, are intended to increase employment opportunities and reduce economic incentives for crime. This study … is the first to explore the relationship between BTB laws and crime. Using agency-by-month data from the National …

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates … specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our results reveal that, consistent with a theory in which height can be a source of … labor market disadvantage, criminals in early America were shorter than the average American, and individual crime hazards …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … further criminal behavior. For previously employed individuals, while there is no effect on recidivism, there is a lasting … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random …