Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …

environment where police officers are heterogenous in their tastes for discrimination and in their costs of search and motorists …

We study the impact of a medical breakthrough (HAART) on domestic violence and illicit drug use among low-income women … introduced affected how strongly their experience of domestic violence or drug use responded to the breakthrough. Immune system … introduction reduced domestic violence and illicit drug use. To explain our estimates, we treat health as a form of human capital …