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against women. We find that husband`s education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … experienced domestic violence are more likely to suffer violence themselves …
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In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...
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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling …
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implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …
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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,...
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This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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marginal cost of violence always reduces violence, while increasing the indiscriminate fixed cost may backfire and result in …
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exposure to violence substantially increases present bias – choice of the smaller, immediate reward over the larger, later … mitigates the differences in behavior between those who were exposed to violence and those who were not. Our findings suggest … patient choices and mitigate the elevated impulsivity of individuals that have experienced violence. We measure our treatment …
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We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...
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