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

-run earnings, employment, family income, household formation, and geographic mobility. We observe long-run outcomes by linking both … find treated children have between 5 to 6 percent higher earnings as young adults. The results are quite large for young … increases in earnings in adulthood. Finally, we find that increased earnings start at ages 21 and older for the treated students …

simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing anti-social behavior such as crime. Indeed, recent evidence shows … that participation in active labor market programs reduces crime among unemployed young men. The existence of such effects …

benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job loss, especially for …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging …

. 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 …

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 Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

pure negative income effect on crime but also raises the opportunity cost of crime. This prediction is particularly … panel dataset of state- and county-level crime rates. My point estimates show that the ACA Medicaid expansion is negatively … expansion induced reduction in crime to expansion states is almost $10 billion per year …