%0 Report
        %A Dragone, Davide
%A Prarolo, Giovanni
%A Vanin, Paolo
%A Zanella, Giulio
        %T Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10522
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10522
        %X 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. 
        %K recreational marijuana
%K cannabis
%K crime