TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dragone, Davide
AU  - Prarolo, Giovanni
AU  - Vanin, Paolo
AU  - Zanella, Giulio
        TI  - Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
        PY  - 2017/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10522
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10522
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - recreational marijuana
KW  - cannabis
KW  - crime
        ER  -