needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low …. We find some evidence that the credit reduced medical hardships, reduced reliance on friends and family for food, and …

Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision making behind … and uninsured members of a family, may be disruptive to consistent medical care. In this paper we investigate how changes … family as the main unit of observation provides important insights and details potential unintended consequences of …

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 …

Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of … violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra-family … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …

annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home …It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence …, little is known regarding the extent to which these problems spill over to children outside the family. The widespread …

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …

This paper proposes and analyzes an intergenerational model of domestic violence (IMDV) in which behavioral strategies … individuals who grew up in violent homes. The IMDV calls attention to three features neglected in the domestic violence literature … crucial. The second neglected feature is divorce: ongoing domestic violence requires the conjunction of a husband who is …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 …

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