—shaped the age gradient in female crime. We used FBI arrest data to investigate the age-patterning of the effects of welfare … reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led …

--shaped the age gradient in female crime. We used FBI arrest data to investigate the age-patterning of the effects of welfare … reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led …

prisons. This paper shows that female politicians in the US do not have any immediate negative effect on actual crime rates …. The OLS estimates show that female politicians have a significant but negligible effect on crime. To address any … instrumental variable results show that female politicians do not have a statistically significant effect on crime rates. I then …