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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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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

de Janvry, Alain - 2010

This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...

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Labor Supply Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer

Gromadzki, Jan - 2023

I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...

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Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Molina Millán, Teresa - 2019

Numerous evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs show positive short-term impacts, but there is only limited evidence on whether these benefits translate into sustained longer-term gains. This paper uses the municipal-level randomized assignment of a CCT program implemented for...

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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown Up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - 2020

Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...

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The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers : Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund

Jones, Damon - 2018

What are the effects of universal and permanent cash transfers on the labor market? Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have been entitled to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Using data from the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, we show that the...

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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Hernaes, Oeystein - 2018

more than offset reduced welfare benefits. Fewer welfare payments and smaller caseloads make the policy highly cost-effective …

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered rollout. By changing parents' consumption patterns, the...

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