This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behavior in society. Our …

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behaviour in society. Our …

This paper leverages a discontinuity in legal access to alcohol at age 16 to estimate its impacts on teenage drinking … and crime in Germany, a country with very high consumption levels. Using detailed survey data and administrative crime … engagement under the influence of alcohol, mostly due to violent and property crimes. I provide evidence that changes in drinking …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who are left behind at their neighborhood school. We leverage variation … on observables. Finally, we confirm evidence in the literature that students who win the lottery decrease adult … criminality but show that after accounting for the negative impact on the students who forego the lottery, lotteries increase …

low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about … 8 percentage points for eligible students in the cohorts who experienced the fully developed program. For these cohorts …, we also find suggestive effects on persistence to the fourth year of college, cumulative earned credits, and academic …

, where students increase consumption where they study and reduce consumption where they are from. Because of this, the … location of HEIs can have an important impact not only upon their host economies but also on the localities where students … originate from. This paper analysis the flow of students within Scotland and the resulting spatial shift of consumption …