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Cross-border spillover : US gun laws and violence in Mexico

Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012

-crime relationship. -- gun control ; violence ; informal employment ; cross-border spillover ; cartels …

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Police trust and domestic violence : evidence from immigration policies

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2019

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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Effects of maternal work incentives on adolescent social behaviors

Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Kalil, Ariel; … - 2019

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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Partially identified treatment effects under imperfect compliance : the case of domestic violence

Siddique, Zahra - 2009

policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …

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Family violence and football : the effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior

Card, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010

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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Social distancing, stimulus payments, and domestic violence : evidence from the US during COVID-19

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022

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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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes

Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - 2018

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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Local exposure to school shootings and youth antidepressant use

Rossin-Slater, Maya; Schnell, Molly; Schwandt, Hannes; … - 2019

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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The effect of community-level socio-economic conditions on threatening racial encounters

Antecol, Heather (contributor); … - 2008

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have threatening racial encounters with insiders. We use unique data for a sample of active-duty Army personnel...

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Is crime contagious?

Ludwig, Jens (contributor); Kling, Jeffrey R. (contributor) - 2006

Understanding whether criminal behavior is "contagious" is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...

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