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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822103
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impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …
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We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …
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Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern durchgeführt wurden: Gewalt und Wasser. Im ersten dieser … Konflikt lebt. Detailliert die Wirkung solcher Exponierung auf das Auftreten häuslicher Gewalt untersu... … in developing and emerging economies: violence, and water. Within the first of these areas, the analysis is centred on …
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the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small … communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide rates reflect actual exposure to violence, the analysis shows that … exposure to violence during pregnancy leads to deterioration in birth outcomes: one extra homicide during the first trimester …
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How do changes in mobility impact crime? Using police precinct-level daily crime statistics and shootings data from the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we estimate that extortion, theft, and robberies decrease by at least 41.6% following COVID-19 mandated stay-at-home orders and changes in...
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The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was …
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by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …-related calls for police service. Effects are larger in areas with a high proportion of renters. These effects for domestic violence …
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