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Is Crime Contagious?
Ludwig, Jens; Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2021
crime rates decrease arrest rates among individuals. Our analysis exploits the fact that the effect of treatment group …-site interactions to instrument for measures of neighborhood crime rates, poverty and racial segregation in our analysis of individual …
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Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development : Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2019
This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor …
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Taking a Chance on Workers : Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT
Barham, Tania; Cadena, Brian C.; Turner, Patrick S - 2023
This paper estimates experimental impacts of a supported work program on employment, earnings, benefit receipt, and other outcomes. Case managers addressed employment barriers and provided targeted financial assistance while participants were eligible for 30 weeks of subsidized employment....
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs : A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP's, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
Chong, Alberto; Galdo, José - 2021
We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive features in the data. First, selection of training courses is based on public bidding processes that...
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program : The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2021
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...
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Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - 2021
A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates null results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment...
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The ineffectiveness of "observe and report" patrols on crime
Fabbri, Marco; Klick, Jonathan - In: International review of law and economics 65 (2021), pp. 1-9
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The Effect of Workfare on Crime : Incapacitation and Program Effects
Fallesen, Peter - 2014
In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in … Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated … lasting crime reducing effect of workfare policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039586
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Less Cash, Less Crime : Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard - 2014
It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit … had a negative and significant effect on the overall crime rate as well as burglary, assault, and larceny. According to …
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