Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their lifetimes. Most of the existing … research has concluded that exposure to violence leads to restricted emotional development, aggressive behavior and poor school … outcomes. However, this literature fails to account for the fact that children exposed to neighborhood violence are highly …

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 … unobserved characteristics. Data come from the National School-Based Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, which are nationally …

We develop a theoretical model to explain both the high level and persistence in gun violence for black males ages 15 … violence …

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 …

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 in and around schools has drawn increasing attention lately from both the public and policy makers. Despite … violence affects high school graduation, college attendance, and teacher pay. Using data from the High School and Beyond survey …, I find that local violence has important effects. Moderate levels of violence reduce the likelihood of high school …