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 …

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 …

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For … individual choice. This issue can cloud causal interpretations of correlations between the treatment and criminality since those … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …