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 …

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …

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 …

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 …

Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school …-geneous groups, heterogeneous peer groups do help students avoid violence. These results are relevant to public policy discussions on … optimal group composition for violence reduction programs. …

online reduces the likelihood of coordination failures at both the extensive (engagement) and intensive (violence) margins …

patterns of self-selection into becoming a refugee in Poland. We focus on how having experienced violence in the course of the … economically and in terms of their general wellbeing (happiness). Having experienced violence does not seem to compel Ukrainians to … become refugees, suggesting that they move preemptively, due to the threat of violence, and not after having experienced it …

Pressure groups may use bribes, violence, or a combination of both to bend politics to their will, and the choice … dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on … pressure groups use political violence to sway democratic elections in favor of their preferred candidates, while resorting to …