A new Anchorage study on the effects of Permanent Fund dividends includes a look at how its disbursement affects crime rates in Alaska’s largest city.
The University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research report on the dividend’s effects was released Friday. It breaks down Anchorage Police Department data on crime in the four weeks following dividend payments spanning from 2000 to 2016, when its average amount was $1,600.
ISER’s 45-page study, accepted by the applied-economics journal Review of Economics and Statistics, includes a few local findings in the wake of those dividends.“Substance-abuse incidents increased 14 percent the […]
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