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Currie, Janet M. (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...

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Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

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Persistent effects of violent media content

Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2020

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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes

Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - In: The review of economics and statistics 104 (2022) 3, pp. 525-540

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COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence

Chalfin, Aaron; Danagoulian, Shooshan; Deza, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and …-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic violence. This research considers an important mechanism behind the … increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an increase in the riskiness of alcohol consumption. We combine 911 …

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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes

Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - 2018

Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...

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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes

Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - 2018

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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets

Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....

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Did Violence Against Asian-Americans Rise in 2020? : Evidence from a Novel Approach to Measuring Potentially Racially-Motivated Attacks

Knorre, Aleksei; Tiem, Britte van; Chalfin, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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 …

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Drawn into violence: Evidence on what makes a criminal from the Vietnam draft lotteries

Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust evidence of effects on violent crimes among...

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