Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …

There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a …, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a … decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

marginal cost of violence always reduces violence, while increasing the indiscriminate fixed cost may backfire and result in …

We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil …. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to … criminal courts, use of public shelters by victims and mandatory notifications of domestic violence by health providers …

of the domestic violence problem during periods of crisis than traditional, police-recorded crime measures. Analyzing the …We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based … COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London, we find a 40 percent peak increase in our internet search-based domestic violence index …

This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the … spillovers would underestimate crime effects of pollution by 24%. My findings highlight the consequences of social media …