We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating effect of unemployment … benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates suggest that unemployment …

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … elasticity impacts welfare with a similar magnitude to the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to benefit level. …