Episode 119: Elin Colmsjö on how health shocks affect criminal behavior

Elin Colmsjö talks about how health shocks affect criminal behavior.

“Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime” by Steffen Andersen, Elin Colmsjö, Gianpaolo Parise, and Kim Peijnenburg. 

OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “Participation in illegitimate activities: A theoretical and empirical investigation" by Isaac Ehrlich.

• “Long-term and spillover effects of health shocks on employment and income” by Pilar García-Gómez, Hans Van Kippersluis, Owen O’Donnell, and Eddy Van Doorslaer.

• “The economic consequences of hospital admissions" by Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo.

• “Family health behaviors" by Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen.

• “Family labor supply responses to severe health shocks: Evidence from Danish administrative records" by Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen.

• “Child’s gender, young fathers’ crime, and spillover effects in criminal behavior" and Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø.

• “Life shocks and crime: A test of the 'turning point' hypothesis” by Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E Reichman, and Ofira Schwartz-Soicher.

• "Does Welfare Prevent Crime? the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from SSI" by Manasi Deshpande and Michael Mueller-Smith.

• Probable Causation Episode 72: Manasi Deshpande.

• "Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility" by Elisa Jácome.

• Probable Causation Episode 60: Elisa Jácome.

• "The Effect of Medicaid on Crime: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment" by Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Miller, and Katherine Baicker.