Recreational Cannabis Reduces Rapes and Thefts : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

An argument against the legalization of the cannabis market is that such a policy would increase crime. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we show, combining difference-in-differences and spatial regression discontinuity designs, that recreational cannabis caused a significant reduction of rapes and thefts on the Washington side of the border in 2013-2014 relative to the Oregon side and relative to the pre-legalization years 2010-2012

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Dragone, Davide
Other Persons:	Prarolo, Giovanni (contributor) ; Vanin, Paolo (contributor) ; Zanella, Giulio (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Kriminalität \| Crime \| Experiment \| Cannabis \| Drogenkonsum \| Drug consumption \| Tourismusregion \| Tourism destination \| Drogenpolitik \| Drug policy

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