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COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence

Chalfin, Aaron; Danagoulian, Shooshan; Deza, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 …

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Youth depression and future criminal behavior

Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

childhood depression and adult criminality. One novelty in our approach is the estimation of school and sibling fixed effects …

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Wet laws, drinking establishments, and violent crime

Anderson, D. Mark; Crost, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2014

Drawing on county-level data from Kansas for the period 1977-2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalize the sale...

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The Effect of Police on Crime : New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010

Chalfin, Aaron - 2013

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected...

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