effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants …-in-differences strategy. Legal status leads to a 50 percent reduction in recidivism and explains one-half to two-thirds of the observed … differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. …

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We match workers displaced upon plausibly … allowing for treatment effect heterogeneity. In our preferred specification, the probability of criminal prosecution increases by …

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data … on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We match workers displaced upon … loss while allowing for treatment effect heterogeneity. In our preferred specification, the probability of criminal …

We investigate the effect of having a child on parents' criminal behavior using rich administrative data from Brazil …. Fathers' criminal activity sharply increases by up to 10% during the pregnancy period, and by up to 30% two years after birth …, while mothers experience only a transitory decline in criminal activity around childbirth. The effect on fathers lasts for …

We investigate the effect of having a child on parents’ criminal behavior using rich administrative data from Brazil …. Fathers’ criminal activity sharply increases by up to 10% during the pregnancy period, and by up to 30% two years after birth …, while mothers experience only a transitory decline in criminal activity around childbirth. The effect on fathers lasts for …

effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants …-in-differences strategy. Legal status leads to a 50 percent reduction in recidivism and explains one-half to two-thirds of the observed … differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. …

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in …-release criminal record of inmates from new EU member countries with a control group of pardoned inmates from candidate EU member … show that obtaining legal status lowers the recidivism of economically motivated offenders, but only in areas that provide …

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on crime, exploiting unique individual-level data on … the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We find that the probability of criminal … offsets potential crime increases upon job loss, but this effect completely vanishes immediately after benefit expiration. Our …