TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fallesen, Peter
AU  - Geerdsen, Lars Pico
AU  - Imai, Susumu
AU  - Tranæs, Torben
        TI  - The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Incapacitation and Program Effects
        PY  - 2014/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8716
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8716
        AB  - In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated uninsured and unemployment insured men, and part of this decline can be identified as a direct effect of workfare participation. Moreover, we find that criminal activity was also reduced during weekends, when the workfare programs were closed, allowing us to distinguishing the pure program effect from the incapacitation effect. These results imply a strong and potentially lasting crime reducing effect of workfare policy.
        KW  - crime reduction
KW  - difference-in-differences
KW  - policy experiment
KW  - secondary effects
KW  - workfare policy
KW  - workfare and crime
KW  - unemployment and crime
        ER  -