results are due to opposite effects of pandemic shutdowns on two measures of DV in police data: an increase in domestic … violence 911 calls and a decrease in DV crime reports. In theory, this divergence can come from either higher DV reporting …This chapter examines the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence (DV) in the United States. Despite …

aimed at reducing the over-prescribing of opioids on women's wellbeing by examining its effects on intimate partner violence … burden of the opioid epidemic …

The Covid-19 pandemic is estimated to have caused over 7 million deaths and reduced economic output by over $13 … trillion to date. While vaccines were developed and deployed with unprecedented speed, pre-pandemic investments could have …

We review economic arguments for using public policy to accelerate vaccine supply during a pandemic. Rapidly … restrained with the help of careful policy design and advance preparations. Capacity is so valuable during a pandemic that …

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 …

to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States ….g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian … hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory …

calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both …

number of domestic violence incidents, police should lower their threshold for arrest, not decriminalize domestic violence …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …

by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …-related calls for police service. Effects are larger in areas with a high proportion of renters. These effects for domestic violence …