IZA Discussion Papers | IZA@LISER Network

published as 'The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2024, 40 (1), 129 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13446

Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation

Giulio Zanella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13360

Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13280

The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4), 1393-1423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13038

Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs

Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio, Francesco Principe

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, 102371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13027

Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines

Michael Jetter, Teresa Molina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156 ,102843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12980

Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use

D. Mark Anderson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: National Tax Journal, 2020, 73 (2), 475-510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12928

Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada

Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix, Mohammad Arshad Rahman

published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 227 - 259

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12863

Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

Stefan Bauernschuster, Ramona Rekers

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 201, 104663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12781

Shaking Criminal Incentives

Yu Aoki-Beattie, Theodore Koutmeridis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12722

The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Involvement with the Criminal Justice System: The Case of California's Proposition 47

Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin, Steven Raphael

published in: Criminology & Public Policy, 2020, 19 (4), 1165-1207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12693

Stay or Flee? Probability versus Severity of Punishment in Hit-And-Run Accidents

Stefano Castriota, Mirco Tonin

published as 'Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2023, 55, 117 - 144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12652

The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47

Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael

published as 'Decarceration and Crime: California’s Experience' in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar, 2022, 83 - 134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12616

Parents' Marital Status, Psychological Counseling and Dishonest Kindergarten Children: An Experimental Study

Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551

Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban

Daniel Masterson, Vasil Yasenov

published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534

Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12474

Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12469

Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany

Yue Huang, Michael Kvasnicka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12405

Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK

Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Sarah Jewell, Francesca Bettio

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88 (2), 527-544

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12352

Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin

published as 'International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crimes' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (3), 589–610

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12335

Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso, Ricardo Perez-Truglia

published in: American Economic Journal, 2023, 15 (1), 110 - 153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12240

Violence and Human Capital Investments

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Livia Menezes

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (3), 787 - 823.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12231

Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking

Armando N. Meier, Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 998-1014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12229

Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany

Horst Entorf, Martin Lange

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 101, 103913

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12228

The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration

Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12179

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation

Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12167

Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases

Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12122

Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?

Jenny Williams, Don Weatherburn

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (2), 232–245.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12114

De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Jenny Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Rosanna Smart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12084

Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime

Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, 104804

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12083

Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11978

International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes

Guido Friebel, Miriam Manchin, Mariapia Mendola, Giovanni Prarolo

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 148, 103878.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11948

The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes

Carly Will Sloan, George S Naufal, Heather Caspers

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11810

The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Cityscape, 2019, 21 (2), 129-156.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11805

Why Does Education Reduce Crime?

Brian Bell, Rui Costa, Stephen Machin

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11786

Exploiting the Unbanked: Evidence from Singapore's Unlicensed Moneylending Market

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11646

Strategies to Productively Reincorporate the Formerly-Incarcerated into Communities: A Review of the Literature

Jennifer Doleac

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11645

Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(4),1269-1324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11644

Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment

Robert Dur, Ben Vollaard

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 93, 208-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11567

High on Crime? Exploring the Effects of Marijuana Dispensary Laws on Crime in California Counties

Priscillia E Hunt, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Gabriel Weinberger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11555

Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535

Tax Evasion on a Social Network

Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11492

Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime

Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth, Lutz Sager

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 555-585.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11491

News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11490

Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi, Robert Witt

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 1040-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11489

The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Jennifer Doleac, Anita Mukherjee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11392

The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?

Diego Zambiasi, Steven Stillman

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (2), 667-679

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11390

Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11278

Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 234-240.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10990

The Mitigating Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs

Erica G. Birk, Glen R. Waddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10928

Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 124, 103355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10895

Going after the Addiction, Not the Addicted: The Impact of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal

Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal, Ana Tavares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10872

Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead

Stephen B. Billings, Kevin T. Schnepel

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 315 - 344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10858

The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati, Francesco Sobbrio

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3305 - 3336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10857

Drivers of the Underground Economy around the Millienium: A Long Term Look for the United States

Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10796

Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, David A. Rivers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10709

Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating

Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10707

Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Markus Gehrsitz

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2017, 30(3), 497-528

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10705

Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century

Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (1), 50 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10608

On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Ritwik Banerjee, Arnab Mitra

published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 332 - 355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10607

Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 126, 103447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10550

Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer, Cédric Gorinas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10543

You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age

Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman

published as 'Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk-taking' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2381-2398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10522

Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana

Davide Dragone, Giovanni Prarolo, Paolo Vanin, Giulio Zanella

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 488-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10409

Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders

Michael Mueller-Smith, Kevin T. Schnepel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10374

Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, 81 - 100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10306

Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization

Stefano Comino, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Antonio Nicolò

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (4), 1214 - 1245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10260

Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru

Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10236

The Decision to Carry: The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications

Briggs Depew, Isaac D. Swensen

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 4 April 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10208

Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime

Samuel R. Bondurant, Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 124 - 133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10029

Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Biagio Speciale

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (3), 654 - 691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947

Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

S. Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou

published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901

Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9887

High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use

Yu-Wei Luke Chu, Seth Gershenson

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 142-153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820

Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn

published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9711

Causal Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Education Outcomes for Youth in the Justice System

Alison Evans Cuellar, Dhaval M. Dave

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9702

Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations

Zhixin Dai, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (3), 1081-1100.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9700

College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

Jason M. Lindo, Peter Siminski, Isaac D. Swensen

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (1), 236–265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9695

The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Daniel J. Parisian

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9638

Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo R. Soares, Gabriel Ulyssea

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9561

Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl, Andreea Mitrut

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (1), 180-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9501

Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, Akhmed Umyarov

published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9388

The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

Eberhard Feess, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Markus Schramm, Ansgar Wohlschlegel

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 58-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9374

Education and Criminal Behavior: Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School

Olof Aslund, Hans Grönqvist, Caroline Hall, Jonas Vlachos

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 178-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9279

School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile

Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1096-1118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9211

Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Marco Manacorda

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 16-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9109

The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis, Stephen Machin

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9067

Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Jason M. Lindo, María Padilla-Romo

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 253-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9038

Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

Paul Bisschop, Stephen Kastoryano, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 28-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8982

Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in the Crime Market

Evelina Gavrilova, Nadia Campaniello

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 289-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8962

Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Marc Piopiunik, Jens Ruhose

published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 258-282

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