reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

less conventional factors such as abortion or gun laws. The hypothesis that drug prohibition generates violence, however … role in determining violence"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …