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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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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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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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Understanding the cycle : childhood maltreatment and future crime

Currie, Janet M.; Tekin, Erdal - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 47 (2012) 2, pp. 509-549

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The effect of police on crime : new evidence from US cities, 1960 - 2010

Chalfin, Aaron; McCrary, Justin - 2013

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The Effect of Police on Crime : New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010

Chalfin, Aaron - 2013

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected...

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The long-run effect of Mexican immigration on crime in US cities : evidence from variation in Mexican fertility rates

Chalfin, Aaron - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 220-225

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