Do jobs and income-transfer programs affect crime? The answer depends on why one is
asking the question, which shapes what one means by “crime.” Many studies focus on …

Universal, unconditional basic income is attracting increasing policy and academic interest.
Income is a key health determinant, and a basic income could affect health through its effect …

We investigate the impact of job loss on crime and the mitigating role of unemployment
benefits, exploiting detailed individual‐level data linking employment careers, criminal …

Importance Poverty has long been associated with a higher risk for child maltreatment, and
recent research suggests that income support policies are associated with reduced child …

This paper exploits a policy change in Illinois that altered monthly nutritional assistance
benefits dates to estimate the impact of in‐kind benefit receipt on domestic violence. We find …

Firearm violence is a major threat to global public health and safety. Several individual,
family, peer, community, and societal risk and protective factors determine or modify the risk …

Ensuring that people have a sufficient income to meet their basic needs and that it keeps
pace with costs of living are important when considering ways to reduce health inequities …

We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass layoffs, on criminal arrests
using a matched employer-employee crime dataset from Medellín, Colombia. Job …

Are natural resources a curse or a blessing? The answer may depend on how natural
wealth is managed. By transforming a temporary windfall into a permanent stock in the form …

Childbearing is at once deeply personal and shaped by social structure. It is also a site of
profound inequality in the United States. Income inequality is an upstream cause of …