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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. This paper evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find that the policy reduced the number of unnatural...
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This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The … military camps during the war. Over 130 years later, the likelihood of intimate partner violence is still 5.54 percent higher … that do not respect traditional gender roles and induces intimate partner violence that is transmitted across generations. …
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