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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822103
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How do mass shootings affect community wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the United States. Research shows that mass shootings have significant detrimental effects on the direct victims and their families. However, relatively little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316219
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The impact of an experimental guaranteed income on crime and violence
Calnitsky, David; Gonalons-Pons, Pilar - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405519
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166761
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Broken windows policing and crime: evidence from 80 Colombian cities
Mejía, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobón, Santiago; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264884
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Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces crime and violence over 10 years : Experimental evidence
Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205049
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Population sex ratios and violence against women : the long-run effects of sex selection in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017
This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740636
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Crime and violence : desensitization in victims to watching criminal events
Di Tella, Rafael; Freira, Lucía; Gálvez, Ramiro H.; … - 2017
We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated participants watch a series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928810
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Football, alcohol and domestic abuse
Ivandic, Ria; Kirchmaier, Tom; Torres-Blas, Neus - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596779
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Changing patterns of domestic abuse during Covid-19 lockdown
Ivandic, Ria; Kirchmaier, Tom; Linton, Ben - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487130