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The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …
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The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …
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contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous … first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher …
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We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our … intention of household heads decreases from 37% to 33%. The sensitivity of migration intentions to violence is larger for … insurance against the consequences young children suffer in case the household head would be harmed by xenophobic violence and …
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This paper investigates the effects of school starting age on crime while relying on variation in school starting age induced by administrative rules; we exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in...
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To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
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-deployed units contributed to community violence in the form of assaults, murders, and robberies. In contrast, estimates of the …
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hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an … increase in discriminative policing, provided by intelligence units, for example, always reduces violence. Under the right … circumstances, it may also lead to larger supporter clubs and a significant drop in violence. Indiscriminate policing, such as the …
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In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian …
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conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …
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