This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances inflow and social violence by … social violence, we test our model’s prediction. Duly controlling for the endogeneity problem using appropriate instruments …, we find that remittances tend to reduce social violence. We perform sensitivity analysis on remittances in the empirical …

This article verifies the different effects of legal repression over homicide rates across Brazilian states. We analyze … different police strategies can have different impact over the homicide rate, which contradicts the study of Levitt (2004 … incarceration rate over homicide rate. …

officers over the homicide rates. Overall, our results suggest that the increase in both the incarceration rate and the number …

This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the … Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and the homicide rate …. The negative relationship is driven by the 75th quantile of the conditional distribution of the homicide rate. The …

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …