In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …

Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized … referral methods identified men with strikingly high scope for gun violence reduction: for every 100 people in the control … group, there were over 11 shooting and homicide victimizations during the 20-month outcome period. Take-up and retention …

Did anti-Asian violence rise after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic? Efforts to answer this question are compromised … studying whether anti-Asian violence rose after March 2020 that addresses each of these concerns. Using data from the FBI …'s National Incident-Based Reporting System, we study inter-race violence occurring in public spaces. While public violence …

data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly …

studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … informative of developing countries' experience because Brazil in this period was unique among major migrant destinations as a low … interaction of aggregate immigrant inflows and the expansion of Brazil's railway network, we find that a greater immigrant share …