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Does child abuse cause crime?
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304677
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317760
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496076
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486213
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267428
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - In: The review of economics and statistics 92 (2010) 1, pp. 15-30
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737915
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301665
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Stand your ground laws and homicides
McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568740
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Youth depression and future criminal behavior
Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
childhood depression and adult criminality. One novelty in our approach is the estimation of school and sibling fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545437
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009547411