@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10522,
            	author={Dragone, Davide and Prarolo, Giovanni and Vanin, Paolo and Zanella, Giulio},
            	title={Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana},
            	year={2017},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={10522},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10522},
	abstract={We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime drop. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the adjacent states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we find, combining county-level difference-in-differences and spatial regression discontinuity designs, that the legalization of recreational marijuana caused a significant reduction of rapes and thefts on the Washington side of the border in 2013-2014 relative to the Oregon side and relative to the pre-legalization years 2010-2012. We also find evidence that the legalization increased consumption of marijuana and reduced consumption of other drugs and both ordinary and binge alcohol. },
	keywords={recreational marijuana;cannabis;crime},
            }