indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews … in the 1920s, and of votes for the Nazi Party. In addition, cities that saw medieval anti-Semitic violence also had …

extends and qualifies a substantive qualitative literature, which has found in local democratic institutions of medieval …

migration rates of about 60 percent that lasted for a few months: after five months, migration rates reverted back to pre-violence … women and children. We show that violence was the main treatment channel, with variation in the intensity and nature of … violence explaining the magnitude and persistence of the migration response. While migration costs, migrant networks, and land …

equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This … partner violence. Impacts are larger among females who were already sexually active at baseline. We develop a model to … understand the mechanisms at play. The soccer intervention improves male attitudes around violence and risky sexual behaviors …

violence may erode community engagement with law enforcement and highlight the call-to-shot ratio as a natural measure of …

The epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In … youth violence has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography. Given the volatility in the … rates of juvenile violence, forecasting rates is a risky business indeed. Effectively narrowing the range of plausible …

of the effects of drug and alcohol consumption on violence may be biased because of the possibility that both behaviors … consumption in the violence equation. This technique allows the consumption measures to be purged of their correlation with …

criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and … violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … incidence of criminal violence. The data come from the 1989 and 1992 International Victimization Surveys. The sample used in …