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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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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 …-existing levels of violent crime. The cross-sectional evidence is backed by panel data analysis dating back to 1999. The annual inflow …
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Existing literature on cross-national variation in violence has paid little attention to the transnational transmission … of crime. One such channel are the forced returns of migrants with a criminal record in their countries of temporary … residence. Responding to this research gap, we study the effect of US deportations of convicts on levels of violent crime in …
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