also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone dramatically reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated … within a year. When cash followed therapy, however, crime and violence decreased by as much as 50 percent for at least a year … skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …

skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …

in Liberia 10 years after randomization into: 8 weeks of low-cost therapy, $200 cash, both, or a control group. A decade … later, men receiving therapy or therapy with cash were about half as likely as the control group to engage in various … concentrated in the highest-risk men, and most robust from therapy with cash …