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Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether … media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to … attendance appears to reduce alcohol consumption. Like the laboratory experiments, we find indirect evidence that movie violence …
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of the effects of drug and alcohol consumption on violence may be biased because of the possibility that both behaviors … consumption in the violence equation. This technique allows the consumption measures to be purged of their correlation with …
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criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and … violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … incidence of criminal violence. The data come from the 1989 and 1992 International Victimization Surveys. The sample used in …
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This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse or neglect. Using state-level...
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violence on college campuses. The principal hypothesis tested is that the incidence of violence is negatively related to the … alcohol and violence and the negative relationship between the use of alcohol and its price. The data employed in the study … adverse consequences of its use. These adverse consequences include the following indicators of violence: getting in trouble …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled...
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We use data on all middle and high school-aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya, Norway, to understand how such events affect survivors, their families, and their peers. Using a difference-in-differences design to compare survivors to a matched control...
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of 35 square blocks of a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe economic loss, but the massacre also sent a warning to Black individuals across the country that similar events were possible in...
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high temperatures increase intense violence among the incarcerated. Days with unsafe heat index levels shift both the … intensive and extensive margins of violence, raising daily violent interactions by 20%, and the probability of any violence by … 18%. Our setting cleanly identifies the effect of heat on violence, and highlights previously unobserved social costs of …
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Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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