Food stamps and crime

by Tyler Cowen September 15, 2017 at 1:33 pm in

Data Source
Food and Drink
Law

We find that staggering SNAP benefits throughout the month leads to a 32 percent decrease in grocery store theft and reduces monthly cyclicity in grocery store crimes.

That is by Jillian B. Carr and Analisa Packham (pdf), via Alexander Berger.