| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w22499
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 22499
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| Analyzing the Impact of the World\u2019s Largest Public Works Project on Crime |
| Satadru Das; Naci Mocan
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| 发表日期 | 2016-08-08
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with the goal of reducing joblessness and poverty. We exploit the design and implementation of this program to investigate its employment impact on various types of crimes, ranging from burglary to kidnapping to riots. We show that the program acts as an insurance scheme because an increase in rainfall, which is negatively correlated with agricultural production, lowers the demand for jobs under the program. Controlling for rainfall, we find that employment generated by the program has a negative impact on both property and violent crime. Although crime elasticities with respect to employment are small, this finding represents another dimension of the social benefit generated by the program. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; Health, Education, and Welfare
; Poverty and Wellbeing
; Labor Economics
; Labor Market Structures
; Other
; Law and Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22499
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580172
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Satadru Das,Naci Mocan. Analyzing the Impact of the World\u2019s Largest Public Works Project on Crime. 2016.
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