Previous studies found the introduction of the today well established media radio and television to affect political … participation. This paper evaluates the effect of the relatively recent introduction of a new medium, broadband internet. OLS …

Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …-robust relationship exists between violence and real income per capita. Additionally, the findings show that human capital based on years …

effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …

, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. -- Video Games ; Violence ; Crime …