We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … implementation of the reform. We find that the reform reduced crime among teenage boys from economically disadvantaged families …. Stronger reform effects on weekday versus weekend crime, reduced school dropout, and favorable long-run outcomes in terms of …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household …. The relationship between trade shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities … financial costs that have been the focus of the literature to date. -- cash transfer programs ; crime ; mistargeting ; social …

Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course … financial motivation like burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like … arson, assault, homicide, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are …

for crime, the vouchers have no impact. Income effects for these adults are particularly large relative to neighborhood … crime …

severity imposed upon adolescents at age 18 deters violent crime by 10-12%. Results are robust to multiple techniques and … specifications. Using these results, we estimate an elasticity of crime with respect to sanction intensity that ranges from -0.145 to …