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This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of nonelderly, nondisabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use regression discontinuity and propensity score matching difference-in-differences methods to take...
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This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to … extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The …
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This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...
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shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …
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rates of recidivism among ex-convicts is due to selection, and not a consequence of the experience of being in prison … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … further criminal behavior. For previously employed individuals, while there is no effect on recidivism, there is a lasting …
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We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use … expansion, Medicaid-reimbursed prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient settings increased by 33% in … states Medicaid insurance and use of Medicaid to pay for treatment increased by 58% and 57% following the expansion. In an …
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656912
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532288
Employing exogenous variation in randomized wait-list positions assigned using a lottery, we identify the causal effects of Section 8 housing vouchers on arrests of adult household heads. Based on administrative records from Houston, we find that voucher receipt has no effect on the likelihood...
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