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To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
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The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat … information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for violence in North American ice hockey are analyzed. We examine …
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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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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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trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the …
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policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …
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We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be …
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implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …
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This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the …
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cash transfer program have higher levels of education in their young adulthood and a lower incidence of criminality for …
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