high temperatures increase intense violence among the incarcerated. Days with unsafe heat index levels shift both the … intensive and extensive margins of violence, raising daily violent interactions by 20%, and the probability of any violence by … 18%. Our setting cleanly identifies the effect of heat on violence, and highlights previously unobserved social costs of …

We develop a theoretical model to explain both the high level and persistence in gun violence for black males ages 15 … violence …

The epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In … youth violence has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography. Given the volatility in the … rates of juvenile violence, forecasting rates is a risky business indeed. Effectively narrowing the range of plausible …

A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and …-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic violence. This research considers an important mechanism behind the … increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an increase in the riskiness of alcohol consumption. We combine 911 …