from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in parental incarceration from the random assignment of … leads to significant increases in teen crime and pregnancy and a significant decrease in early-life employment. The effects … are concentrated among children from the most disadvantaged families, where teen crime increases by 18 percentage points …

Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for …

expenditures in the U.S. rank behind only Sweden. Add in the private spending, and per capita spending in the U.S. is higher than …

child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across …

challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …'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 …

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

late 1970s and early 1980s is responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s, and may cause further … declines into the future. The elasticity of violent crime with respect to lead is estimated to be approximately 0.8 …