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 …

children from families linked to domestic violence, who were shown by Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2012) to disrupt … reduces earnings at age 26 by 3 to 4 percent. We estimate that differential exposure to children linked to domestic violence …

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random …