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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
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/10013166761
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
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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Pains, guns and moves : the effect of the US opioid epidemic on Mexican migration
Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; Masera, Federico - 2020
. Violence and conflicts increased in Mexican municipalities suitable for opium production, as they became highly valuable to drug … cartels. People migrated out of these municipalities to escape this violence, mostly to areas close to the US border and into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224378
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581409
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet M. (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304677
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317760
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Unemployment and ginag crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003465761
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Priks, Mikael (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471375
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578420
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Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime
Cunningham, A. Scott; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, … - 2011
, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. -- Video Games ; Violence ; Crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159870