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 …

value. Despite the welfare loss, the in-kind transfer is more cost-efficient than cash. This is due to the fact that the … transfer of the same cost to the government could only buy a fraction of the food basket in recipient's local markets. Because …

that can be used to assess welfare state generosity to families with children: the child cost compensation indicator. By … making use of this indicator, we show that, even though with important cross-national variation, the out-of-pocket cost of …

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities … financial costs that have been the focus of the literature to date. -- cash transfer programs ; crime ; mistargeting ; social …

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

analyses a panel data set on crime rates and the Brazilian Bolsa Familia, the largest CCT programme in the world, in order to … investigate these relationships and estimate the effect of these policies on crime rates. The related existing economic literature … analysing general welfare programmes generally ignores the crucial endogeneity involved in the relationship between crime rates …