Summary Local, state, and federal governments, along with the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee, spent roughly $1.9 billion in planning and hosting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Event promoters suggested that the Games would increase employment in the state by 35,000 job-years. We investigate...

In this dissertation, I investigate how government policies influence an individual's decision to search for and accept a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they find a job, how their incarceration rate changes. The...