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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w12825
来源ID	Working Paper 12825
	Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression
	Ryan S. Johnson; Shawn Kantor; Price V. Fishback
发表日期	2007-01-11
出版年	2007
语种	英语
摘要	The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in their efforts to survive. Franklin Roosevelt argued that the unprecedented and massive expansion in relief efforts "struck at the roots of crime" by providing subsistence income to needy families. After constructing a panel data set for 81 large American cities for the years 1930 through 1940, we estimate the impact of relief spending by all levels of government on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a ten percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s lowered property crime by roughly 1.5 percent. By limiting the amount of free time for relief recipients, work relief was more effective than direct relief in reducing crime. More generally, our results indicate that social insurance, which tends to be understudied in economic analyses of crime, should be more explicitly and more carefully incorporated into the analysis of temporal and spatial variations in criminal activity.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Other ; Law and Economics ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w12825
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570490
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ryan S. Johnson,Shawn Kantor,Price V. Fishback. Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression. 2007.

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