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Alcohol and short-run mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D. H.; … - 2021

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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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

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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Changing patterns of domestic abuse during Covid-19 lockdown

Ivandic, Ria; Kirchmaier, Tom; Linton, Ben - 2020

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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022

Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...

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How can bilateral contracts support electricity trade? : a regional electricity model perspective for the GCC Plus Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq

Petitet, Marie; Ricaud, Benjamin; Felder, Frank A.; … - 2024

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The differential effects of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa

Akame, Afuge; Mavrotas, George - 2024

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On violence in professional team sport as the endogenous result of profit maximization

Stewart, Kenneth G.; Ferguson, Donald G.; Jones, J. C. H. - 1992

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Socioeconomic structure, self-fulfilment, homicides and spatial dependence in Brazil

Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; Cerqueira, Daniel; … - 2015

taking the decision to perpetrate violence, not only responds to expected economic costs and benefits, but also to an … conclusions show that the probability of victimization by violence is higher in places with greater income inequality, larger …

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Long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870) : from male scarcity to intimate partner violence

Boggiano, Barbara - 2020

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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Deportations and the roots of gang violence in Central America

Ambrosius, Christian - 2018 - This version: June 17th 2018

rampant violence in the region. Using a novel identification strategy, this paper provides the first econometric evidence for … exploits subnational variation in the exposure of migrant communities to exogenous conditions in the host country. Violence …

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