Britto, Diogo G. C.; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno - 2020
We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … exogenous mass layoffs with observationally-equivalent control groups to identify dynamic treatment effects of job loss while … 23% upon job loss and remains approximately constant during the following years. Our unusually large dataset allows us to …