Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …

We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured … politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about the use of pre-electoral violence under different types of … rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of 'electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower …

such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation …, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other … impacts of cash and therapy on crime may be larger than suggested by surveys alone …

challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …'s criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

with a minor and child pornography. We study how the disclosure of this information, which was widely covered in the media …

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 …

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 …

Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …

In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …

attacks and crime-related shootings. The primary finding of our analysis is the importance of separating these types of … attacks and crime-related shootings. Analyses that ignore these distinctions or focus on a particular type may provide a …