We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We match workers displaced upon plausibly … are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating effect of unemployment …

suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data … on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We match workers displaced upon …

We study the effects of parental job loss on children and how access to unemployment benefits can mitigate these … impacts. We leverage unique nationwide data from Brazil linking multiple administrative datasets, and take a comprehensive … work informally, commit crime, and experience early pregnancy. In turn, parents reduce educational investments by moving …

This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program …

We study the effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on health among Brazilian workers. We construct a …

We study the causal effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on hospitalization and mortality for Brazilian … following their parent's job dismissal. Using a regression-discontinuity design that exploits variation in UI eligibility …

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …

We study the impacts of parental job loss and unemployment benefits on children's education in Brazil, using rich … individual-level data on employment, school enrollment, and unemployment insurance for the entire population. Leveraging mass … regression discontinuity design, we show that access to unemployment benefits mitigates some of the adverse impacts of parental …