Arbeitspapier
Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime drop. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the adjacent states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we find, combining county-level difference-in-differences and spatial regression discontinuity designs, that the legalization of recreational marijuana caused a significant reduction of rapes and thefts on the Washington side of the border in 2013-2014 relative to the Oregon side and relative to the pre-legalization years 2010-2012. We also find evidence that the legalization increased consumption of marijuana and reduced consumption of other drugs and both ordinary and binge alcohol.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10522
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- Thema
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cannabis
recreational marijuana
crime
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dragone, Davide
Prarolo, Giovanni
Vanin, Paolo
Zanella, Giulio
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Dragone, Davide
- Prarolo, Giovanni
- Vanin, Paolo
- Zanella, Giulio
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2017
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