The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This … violent events in African countries and sub-national regions. The effect pertains to social violence and unrest, not civil war …

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

evidence suggests that slavery perpetuated violence, there has been no large-N study supporting this claim. Using county …’s political attitudes mediate the effect on interracial violence. …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …