Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education @UVA.
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"Adequately funded safety net programs may generate benefits beyond their direct recipients by reducing the negative spillovers that health shocks impose on broader society."
A Danish study shows that an adverse health shock increases the chances of criminal behavior."
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The authors provide two reasons:
First, economic strains leads individuals to compensate for their loss of legal revenues with illegal earnings.
Second, cancer patients face lower expected cost of punishment through a lower survival probability.
Wow!
Two years later, people's involvement in crime increases and stays high.
At first, leading up to a cancer diagnosis there's no spike in crime.
When someone is diagnosed with cancer, their crime declines rapidly.
Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Jon Green, Amy W. Ando , and 1 more Linda J. Skitka, Jon Green, Amy W. Ando, Bruce Bradbury
There’s a deep anti science streak here.
It does the opposite.
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
It does the opposite.