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dc.contributor.authorFoley, C. Fritz
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-09T14:57:54Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifierQuick submit: 2017-05-10T16:25:08-0400
dc.identifier.citationFoley, C. Fritz. "Welfare Payments and Crime." Review of Economics and Statistics 93, no. 1 (February 2011): 97–112.(url: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00068#.WRN22xPytE5 dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/18646)en_US
dc.identifier.issn0034-6535en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32969786
dc.description.abstractAnalysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase reflects an increase in crimes that are likely to have a direct financial motivation as opposed to other kinds of crime. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of monthly welfare payment cycles and not in jurisdictions in which disbursements are relatively more staggered. These findings indicate that welfare beneficiaries consume welfare-related income quickly and then attempt to supplement it with criminal income.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/REST_a_00068en_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089576en_US
dash.licenseOAP
dc.subjectcrime and corruptionen_US
dc.subjectmotivation and incentivesen_US
dc.subjectwelfare or wellbeingen_US
dc.titleWelfare Payments and Crimeen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.date.updated2017-05-10T20:24:38Z
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalReview of Economics and Statisticsen_US
dash.depositing.authorFoley, C. Fritz
dc.date.available2011
dc.date.available2017-06-09T14:57:54Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1162/REST_a_00068*
dash.contributor.affiliatedFoley, C


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