unintended policy consequence, associated with the benefit reform, namely higher crime. …In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other workin this … that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on aquasiexperimental setting …

an unintended policy consequence, associated with the benefit reform, namely higher crime. …In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other work in … way that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on a quasiexperimental setting …