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

About this episode

Elin Colmsjö discusses the impact of health shocks on 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…

People in this episode

Guest: Elin Colmsjö

Topics covered

• health shocks
• criminal behavior
• economic consequences
• family health behaviors

Keywords

• crime
• health
• economic effects
• family dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: “Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime”, Participation in illegitimate activities, the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from SSI", Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility, The Effect of Medicaid on Crime: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

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