Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed From SSI

Deshpande conducted this research as a Visiting Economist at the Social Security Administration. We thank the Social Security Administration for providing data for this project. We thank David Autor, Janet Currie, Ben Danforth, Eric French, Peter Ganong, Michael Greenstone, Sara Heller, Jeffrey Hemmeter, Nathan Hendren, Paul Kelly, Douglas Miller, Magne Mogstad, Samuel Norris, Adam Sacarny, Mark Sarney, Jeffrey Smith, Alexander Strand, Alessandra Voena, Melanie Wasserman, and Robert Weathers, as well as seminar participants at the Cowles Foundation, Institute for Research on Poverty, Bocconi & CEPR Workshop, George Washington University, Case Western University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime, Chicago Booth Applied Micro, and Chicago Economics Applications for helpful comments. We thank Colin Gray for sharing Uniform Data System (UDS) data and code with us. We thank Benjamin Pyle, Mary Quiroga, Marcia Ruiz Pulgar, Michael Ryter, and Jiada Ye for excellent research assistance. Deshpande thanks the Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets at the Becker-Friedman Institute for financial support. Mueller-Smith thanks Arnold Ventures and the Michigan Institute for Teaching and Research in Economics for financial support. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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