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Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...
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-crime relationship. -- gun control ; violence ; informal employment ; cross-border spillover ; cartels …
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Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U …
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This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash assistance for low-income families, on the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We estimate effects by gender and focus on behaviors that are important for socioeconomic...
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policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …
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We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be …
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We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence … to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January … distribution of CARES Act stimulus payments. We observe that domestic violence calls for areas with higher concentration of …
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Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...
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While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the impacts of these events on the mental health of surviving youth. Using large-scale prescription data from 2006 to 2015, we examine the effects of 44 school shootings on youth...
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violence in the surroundings of schools has a detrimental effect on school attendance and on standardised test scores in math …
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