We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …

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 …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on … potential offenders and victims, and a direct effect on sex crime propensity. To investigate the importance of these mechanisms …

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … identify causal effects, we leverage time-series and cross-sectional variation in crime register data, comparing the number of … holidays. Our main finding shows that violent crime increases by 21.5 percent on a match day. In total, professional football …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

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 …