Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … severe violence aimed at wives. By contrast, the evidence on the propensity of an increase in the price of alcohol to lower …

A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and … increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an increase in the riskiness of alcohol consumption. We combine 911 … the strength of the relationship between visits to alcohol outlets and domestic violence more than doubles starting in …

violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … reduced form model is estimated where the probability of being a victim of violent crime is determined by the price of alcohol …The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the price of alcoholic beverages and the incidence of …

attainment, and adult binge drinking and family and job characteristics. Accounting for illegal drug use and other problem … between adult alcohol use and earnings, we conjecture that binge drinking conveys unobserved social skills that are rewarded …

that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their …The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …

referral methods identified men with strikingly high scope for gun violence reduction: for every 100 people in the control …Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized … in an index combining three measures of serious violence, the study's primary outcome. But one component, shooting and …

In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence … violence appears to lead to a heavy-tailed error distribution. Our empirical results suggest that increases in the assailants …(i.e. the male's) income serve to increase violence, while increases in the proportion of the year that he is employed serve to …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women's college completion rate. Behind these changes … were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age at …

Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research … universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge … uncomplicated and inexpensive interventions can substantially increase the interest of women to major in economics …

During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point … white women and white men would have been achieved as early as 2017 … that exploits the timing of state and federal family-leave policies, we show that the introduction of the policies can …