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removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady …
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removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady …
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We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … lowered social assistance take-up we uncover no indication that loss of income support pushed youth into crime. …
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We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...
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