-crime relationship. -- gun control ; violence ; informal employment ; cross-border spillover ; cartels …

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U …

policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be …

This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented … country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia "excels" in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … in the region. Anecdotal evidence and empirical evidence suggest that response to domestic violence is not homogeneous …

We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence … to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January … distribution of CARES Act stimulus payments. We observe that domestic violence calls for areas with higher concentration of …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil …. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to … criminal courts, use of public shelters by victims and mandatory notifications of domestic violence by health providers …