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violence against their partners, suggesting a causal channel between alcohol consumption and domestic violence. These results … associated with lower rates of motor vehicle accidents and crimes against women, but not other forms of crime. …
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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%. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on...
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reporting. A comparison of crime reporting with police crime statistics and the WISIND indicator on the fear of crime also shows … einerseits eine in Printmedien auftretende überproportionale Fokussierung auf Gewalt-, Sexual- und Rohheitsdelikte und …The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime …
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crime might change during a pandemic, focusing on Covid-19 as a test case. Building on classical theoretical models … circumstances of the pandemic, as whether crime deterrence will increase or decrease should depend on the strength of the effects at …How should we think about crime deterrence in times of pandemics? The economic analysis of crime tells us that …
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intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the anti-crime program Comuna Segura: Compromiso 100 had on the …
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic and the government-mandated measures to contain its spread … which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among the self … disproportionately work in industries that are more severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis of potential mechanisms …
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development of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse the problem from the country and regional (voivodeships) perspective. The data … voivodeships. The results might indicate that the forced lockdown to contain the development of the COVID-19 pandemic has … epidemic status, induce a greater decrease in mobility. …
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